Do we really need another bash-Microsoft article obsessively dissecting one sentence Bill Gates made at some promotional speech or interview or whatever?
Um, it was the Washington Post reporting on the "sentence" (although it was probably more on the orders of a paragraph or two), not Slashdot. We're not dissecting the sentence here. It's pretty clear that MS is going to have to make the sale based on overhyping the features of the new version and badmouthing the old. This sort of thing happens in companies all the time -- Clorox bleach had a big promo for powdered Bleach by badmouthing liquid bleach, their #1 product.
Just like a site focusing on Green Party politics would be crazy not talking about news concerning the Bush administration, it's important to talk about Microsoft here because for the forseeable future it will be that 800-lb gorilla that affects everything else in the tech industry.
If you really want to complain about excessive coverage, it seems like Apple has gotten more than its fair share of articles in the past week, too. Gee, maybe that's because there are a lot of newsworthy events going on with that company.
Things are happening with both Microsoft and Apple this week; big news items ( horrible security exploits patched followed by big talk from Balmer, iTunes for Windows, a Mac-based cluster possibly making #4 or #5 of the top 500 supercomputers). Maybe some things are happening on the Linux front; maybe not. But Linux is based around a community of nerds, not on a corporation with a snazzy PR department.
In a sense, this is exactly what makes Linux an ideal server platform: it's not "features" focused, and it's more into substance than style. It's also why it's less likely to break into the home desktop market any time soon (although it stands a chance in large-volume corporation and school environments).
Simple because if all internet mail could be back traced the spam friendly servers could easily be black listed.
Spam Friendly Servers? You mean, like Yahoo or Hotmail?
If I understand the parent correctly, they just pay people to set up fake e-mail accounts and send out a quantity of messages. By the time that the abuse department at Yahoo or Hotmail gets to them, they can easily send out 300+ of the these messages. Then they can go ahead and create a new account when it's shut down.
There's no real solution to the e-mail problem as I see it. Spammers can always bypass whatever rules are set up, because basically normal e-mail needs to remain responsive and efficient, so it has to have an automated component.
Since Zimbabwe's primary trading partner is the EC, and the EC prohibits GM food on imports, this is a valid concern. If the corn crop became tainted, they would be unable to trade any corn or corn-derived products to the EC.
There appears to be a real push from the Bush administration to get GM foods firmly established both in the States and worldwide, despite popular opposition. This "donation" was a political move, meant to demonize those opposed to GM crops.
Personally, I think it's possible some GM crops are okay. But I'm going to be leery of any food that is technically classified by the FDA as a pesticide or herbicide (Roundup Ready corn and soy are, if I remember correctly, classified as such).
Since there isn't really a problem with underproduction in the US right now, it seems like the only goal with GM foods is to be able to bring the sectors of trademark and patent ownership to the farming arena. Normal seeds are owned by the farmer; GM seeds are owned by the corporations who created the seed in the first place.
Don't give me that golden rice bullshit, either. Studies have shown you'd have to eat buckets of the stuff to get a minimum daily requirement of Vitamin A. If the kids need beta carotene, then feed them veggies, not mutant rice. You can also always enrich rice with vitamins and minerals, just like they do here in the states.
Ultimately, spread of GM technology in food means increased corporate ownership, not only of farms and the entire foodchain, but also over the ability to grow food at all. I am always weirded out by people who champion GM out of one side of their mouth and rail against digital rights management on the other.
One of the things that these devices could do, according to the article, is to watch pots left on the stove or to keep kids out of the cookie jar.
Basically, these would be tools that would let us put less and less reliance on our own observational abilities.
We should be watching the stove and paying attention to it. We should be keeping track of what our kids are doing (Sure, you can't watch your kids all the time, but one cookie snatch from the jar isn't really a problem; the problem would be endemic overeating or a disposition towards stealing or taking from others, and you *should* be able to watch for those). Also, a cookie jar monitor says that you don't trust your kids and that you can't be bothered to care whether they're trustworth or not.
The more tools and aids we use, the less we exercise those parts of our minds, bodies, and characters. We use cars and our whole country is getting fat because we never exercise anymore. Automatic spell checkers are turning people into bad spellers (sorry, no facts to back that up, just a hunch). And the Internet has made -- well, me, at the very least -- very lazy about looking up information. If I can't google it, generally I feel like it isn't worth my time. And if I can, generally googling is as far as I go. I don't bother to go to the library to look up journals or books on the topic.
Privacy concerns aside, it's time to start asking ourselves whether we want to live in a society where machines are no longer just useful tools, but are taking over our roles as mindful individuals.
On the environment, especially open spaces/parks, conservation, pollution and recycling, most Libertarians I know are definitely more liberal than conservative, but not as accutely liberal as the Greens.
I did make a generalization, and I'm encouraged to know that there are libertarians that support the environment.
I have also heard Libertarians saying that the government shouldn't own public lands, and that public parks and open spaces should be privately owned and that their use should be determined by the free market. (Quick quiz -- what's more profitable: a public park that anyone can enter for free, or a strip mall?) I had assumed this was an opinion commonly held by Libertarians.
Also, it's weird, but I guess I also make a distinction between people who are Libertarians, and people who belong to a Libertarian political machine. Which is to say, I have a lot of friends who, when pressed, call themselves Libertarian. I would never think that those people would want to wantonly exploit the environment. However, I *would* believe that a Libertarian party or PAC would be willing to do so.
...Or Geotrust, which is even cheaper, or FreeSSL (not free, by the way) or Comodo (InstantSSL) which are both well under $100.
http://www.instantssl.com http://www.freessl.co m http://www.geotrust.com
All of them seem to be pretty good. I use Comodo, simply because that's the cheapest people who were around a year or two ago, and they offered the highest compatible certificate, and now I'm a partner. They offer pretty good service and very good prices, and their certificates are more compatible than Geotrust or FreeSSL (Geotrust and FreeSSL are only compatible on IE 5+ and NS 7+ browsers and knockoffs thereof, while InstantSSL is compatible with NS4+ and IE3+).
Yes, it does. It probably costs them 1,000s for each patch (more like 100,000s), so you have to divide that by the number of systems to get a cost-per-patch, which may be minimal but will *always* be > 0. Also, there are bandwidth costs, promoting costs, PR people who spread the word about the patch, techs which post detailed articles on the patch, and probably customer service techs who stand by to deal with their very important customers.
Since a patch goes out to (hopefully) so many systems, it isn't much on a per system basis. But it still costs them a lot of money.
Libertarians aren't "right wing" in the general sense, but you can split apart different issues and say whether people take left or right wing stances on those given issues.
So Libertarians are very "Left Wing" (hopefully!) when it comes to their attitudes towards drugs, gays, prayer in school, etc. However, on other issues, particularly in the environment, they are very "Right Wing".
In the same way that most of you probably would cringe at the thought of a socialist on the Federal Reserve, you *should* cringe at the thought of a libertarian overseeing environmental policy decisions, because they would be based on the concept of "free market", which essentially means raping the earth.
Maybe this is incorrect, but I'd rather err looking at a position presented by people who are expressedly *for* the planet than for people who are for the free market. Market-driven policies work turn everything into commodities and goods, and unfortunately these generally aren't priced by their intrinsic value but rather by how cheaply they can be made or gathered, and how much people are willing to pay for them. With the government already basically giving the forests on public lands to logging companies for practically nothing, how much worse would it become if all restrictions on land use were abolished?
I think this Ask Slashdot is something of a moot point. If current recycling practices actually do introduce more toxins and problems than simply throwing items away, then it's those practices that need to be fixed. There's no question that recycling really is "worth it", because recycling means that resources that still have use don't go towards the non-productive purpose of filling up landfills to capacity and driving us to transport trash to new landfills all over the country. From that perspective, I'd genuinely like to see someone try to argue that recycling is still not worth it.
We are living on a planet with finite resources, and I think it's extremely short-sighted to think that we can just go on comsuming and discarding without expecting some sort of negative cumulative effect.
Of course, the best and most important step is to reduce the amount of future waste (packaging, paper, etc) you consume *before* you even decide whether you recycle it or throw it away.
and if you wish to mock the evidence provided, consider providing some evidence of your own,
I think in this case, the evidence is merely that this site has a strong bias in favor of environmental deregulation. As a result, I feel you can take their perspective with a grain of salt. I don't visit a Evangelic Christian website to find out about evolution, I wouldn't go to a neo-nazi website to do research about the Holocaust, and I wouldn't go to a socialist website to learn about how the Stock Market works.
Oh, and if you transfer a domain from another registrar to them (like I did from 000domains), they charge $8 for the transfer, but kick in another year
Hmmm...unless they added *2* years to the previous expiration date, then they weren't doing anything special.
*Whenever* you transfer a domain name to another registrar, the expiration date is automatically extended by another year. So basically you're getting a $2 incentive to transfer to them from another registrar. The added year is actually a requirement.
For those of you who are interested in RegisterFly but don't want to line the pockets of some anonymous coward, you can access RegisterFly here. I wouldn't recommend it, though, as it seems people have had problems, especially with their hosting.
We have 30+ domains with them. They make it very easy to keep track of all of the domains you have. When I log through my technical contact login (They offer a separate login for each contact, Tech, Admin, Owner, and Billing), it lists all of the domains I'm entered as a tech contact for.
This means I can administer all of my domains at once.
Best of all, separate logins means that each of my customers (the "Owner" contacts) has a login that they can use to get into their domains and change their current contact information, as well as keep tabs on the status of their domain (when will it expire, etc).
I don't know if they have a phone contact, but they generally respond to e-mails within 15 minutes or so during business hours.
In addition to sending reminders to the administrators, they send a reminder 5 days before expiration to the technical contact, just in case the admin isn't available to respond.
When you do go into the renewal form, it displays all of the domains you own, and when they are about to expire. You can theoretically renew a batch of them at once, but since most of my records have different owner contact records, I renew them individually. However, for someone who maintains many domain names with identical contacts, this would be ideal.
Also, they're only $13.50 per year, which isn't as cheap as some of these other services, but beats the pants off of Verisign.
Hmmm...that must be why there's no Beatles albums available through the iTunes Music Store. They have some Beatles songs in various compilations, as well as plenty of covers, but not a single album.
A microchip could identify exactly which dose/drug you're on.
Not if you RTFA.
It seems here they're using the term microchip as in, "A tiny thin thing", not anything electronic at all.
I'm guessing that they're using circuit board-making technology -- etching small groves in a silicon wafer -- to make these drug containers.
But the chips have no electronics at all, no semiconductors, no nothing. Their sole use is in containing the drug.
I don't see microchips being able to make the kind of diagnoses you impart to it -- analyzing the drug chemicals in a system generally requires a lot of reactive tests, right? Something an isolated chip couldn't do, probably.
Besides, I'd feel much more comfortable if qualified health personal did a toxicity test on me before inserting a multiple dose drug into my system, TYVM.
So, no these things are more similar to slow release pills. What makes them unique is their ability to release quantitative doses over a measured space of time. Since these doses are released in more controlled quantities, you could use this to administer a medicine whose dosage should change over a period of time. For example, the initial doses could be smaller, and then slowly increase over time. My understanding is that most long term implanted drug devices (like Norplant), release a constant and identical amount of the drug over a given period.
Right, because as I read it it's an archive for marxist and leftist articles.
Kinda how you wouldn't expect to find a copy of The Communist Manifesto on Rush Limbaugh's website -- or Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, for that matter. Both are books that don't fall into Rush Limbaughs sphere of interest.
Centralized communism didn't turn out the way that Marx envisioned; that doesn't make some of the social criticism or observations from the left any less valid. Most of the advances in labor laws that exist today -- the 40 hour work week, anti-child labor laws, safety laws -- were brought about by protests and agitations from unions, back when unions were strongly leftist and many of the leaders were reading works by Marx and Engels.
Personally, I think it's a shame that we don't teach the history of the labor movement in the United States, or about the huge debt in improved living conditions that we owe to it. Most of the people who were alive during the first labor uprisings are long dead. With the loss of manufactoring jobs, and the corporatization of union leaders, the legacy of the labor movement is dying out, and it seems likely that in just a few decades only a few history scholars will know or remember anything about it.
Mods, think. Is there, in fact, a stack of DVDs you can purchase labelled "Library of Congress, part 1 of 5" etc.?
No. Whenever lay tech writers talk about data, they describe it in terms of Libraries of Congress, as in, "This new storage format is equivalent to 10 Libraries of Congress" -- which I've always felt is a pretty bullshit quantizer, as the library obviously has things like photographs, movies, and albums that would take a lot of honking space, so much so that no storage medium exists that could conviently and economically store even 1 Library of Congress.
Anyway, for those of you who didn't get it, it's a joke.
Speaking from experience, Everclear is the purest form of ethanol available at your local Beverage Plus.
Not in Virginia it isn't. My understanding is that in order to purchase alcohol at this proof, you have to have some kind of special license. The ABC laws in Virginia are pretty draconian.
Technically, Irish Car Bombs are illegal too. No mixing of liquor and beer. (No word on skittles yet).
Yep, I remember seeing it too. It was this old guy, and he spread the paste on an egg, pointed a blowtorch at the egg for a few seconds, then cracked the egg, showing it was still completely raw.
They had a tile made out of the stuff. It was able to withstand a high energy laser that burned through a steel plate.
Whatever this junk is, it appears to work, but this current guy didn't necessarily invent it out of thin air; that other guy had made a paste like it earlier.
From the show I saw, I remember that the paste is opaque and white and appears to have the consistency of baking soda toothpaste.
Okay, yeah....I was just realizing that I use the "mailboxes" window all the time in Eudora, which is *kind of* like a drawer.
However, in both of these cases, it's being used for navigation and organization, much like a finder listing. In those cases, it makes sense. I don't think it makes sense when you're looking at a single item.
Yeah, well, they could always have gone ahead and made a pop-up window with the same layout as the info drawer.
I hate slide out drawers. They're not intuitive at all. They're eye candy based. That's my main gripe with Camino -- bookmarks and history have to be accessed from a side drawer.
It breaks the system because you either have to purposefully make your window narrower, or the side bar will be offscreen when it "pops up" (or out, rather). Also, because it's on the side, it doesn't have a featured focus. When I first tried adding an event using 1.5, I doubled clicked to create an event, and wondered why the info window wasn't showing up. Because the drawer was opening to the side, I didn't notice it because I wasn't looking for it. In any case, most of the drawer was offscreen, because I didn't know that I was supposed to provide space on the left for it to show up.
If someone can give me an example of a side drawer that really makes sense and is more useful than a floating pop-up window, please let me know.
I tend to run ext3 on all of my servers, because while it's not necessarily the absolute fastest, it's fast enough, and more importantly, it's rock solid in terms of stability.
Right on. I think it would be much more useful to have a stability test. Take a system, and try doing weird things to it, such as running a known bug that might cause a kernel panic, and seeing how the file system deals with it.
Unplug the computer, and see how many times you can do this before the filesystem gets messed up or confused.
The statistics in these benchmarks appeal to geeks because they relate directly to "performance". It translates directly to the "horsepower" and "0 to 60 in x seconds" statistics for cars (or even, for the eco-conscious, mpg). These statistics are interesting and useful to understand the overall power of the automobile, but for a truly enjoyable car owning experience, you want to find out how reliable the car is, how often it breaks down, and how much it costs to repair. Yeah, I wouldn't mind driving a Ferrari for a day, but I'd much rather own a Subaru or Corolla.
For most people, the most important feature of a filesystem should be how well it maintains its data, and how little it gets in the way (You probably want to avoid filesystems that are CPU hogs). The only statistic that seems a little off is block output K/s for ext3_journal. If I read that correctly, it can only write ~6MB/s. That might be not enough for people who are using a hard drive to store digital video as it streams in.
Yeah, that was my idea as soon as I read this too. I mean, unless this guy works at some place that's located six miles from a train stop in the middle of the salt flats. That's the only situation I can think of where it would be flat enough to use a scooter, but there wouldn't be a bus that dropped him off closer to his work.
Sounds like this guy just wants an excuse to use one of those Razor scooters.
Hey man, you wanna play? Go for it. But I'd recommend choosing a more standard route. Either take the bus, or use a bike. There may be an arrangement that the public transit people make for bikes -- maybe you can store them somewhere at the train station or something. Who knows. I do know that most cities' public transit systems now realize that they need to start catering to bikers, since they tend to be a nice portion of the users of public transit. All of the buses in our town have a bike rack in the front and back.
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Do we really need another bash-Microsoft article obsessively dissecting one sentence Bill Gates made at some promotional speech or interview or whatever?
Um, it was the Washington Post reporting on the "sentence" (although it was probably more on the orders of a paragraph or two), not Slashdot. We're not dissecting the sentence here. It's pretty clear that MS is going to have to make the sale based on overhyping the features of the new version and badmouthing the old. This sort of thing happens in companies all the time -- Clorox bleach had a big promo for powdered Bleach by badmouthing liquid bleach, their #1 product.
Just like a site focusing on Green Party politics would be crazy not talking about news concerning the Bush administration, it's important to talk about Microsoft here because for the forseeable future it will be that 800-lb gorilla that affects everything else in the tech industry.
If you really want to complain about excessive coverage, it seems like Apple has gotten more than its fair share of articles in the past week, too. Gee, maybe that's because there are a lot of newsworthy events going on with that company.
Things are happening with both Microsoft and Apple this week; big news items ( horrible security exploits patched followed by big talk from Balmer, iTunes for Windows, a Mac-based cluster possibly making #4 or #5 of the top 500 supercomputers). Maybe some things are happening on the Linux front; maybe not. But Linux is based around a community of nerds, not on a corporation with a snazzy PR department.
In a sense, this is exactly what makes Linux an ideal server platform: it's not "features" focused, and it's more into substance than style. It's also why it's less likely to break into the home desktop market any time soon (although it stands a chance in large-volume corporation and school environments).
Simple because if all internet mail could be back traced the spam friendly servers could easily be black listed.
Spam Friendly Servers? You mean, like Yahoo or Hotmail?
If I understand the parent correctly, they just pay people to set up fake e-mail accounts and send out a quantity of messages. By the time that the abuse department at Yahoo or Hotmail gets to them, they can easily send out 300+ of the these messages. Then they can go ahead and create a new account when it's shut down.
There's no real solution to the e-mail problem as I see it. Spammers can always bypass whatever rules are set up, because basically normal e-mail needs to remain responsive and efficient, so it has to have an automated component.
Since Zimbabwe's primary trading partner is the EC, and the EC prohibits GM food on imports, this is a valid concern. If the corn crop became tainted, they would be unable to trade any corn or corn-derived products to the EC.
There appears to be a real push from the Bush administration to get GM foods firmly established both in the States and worldwide, despite popular opposition. This "donation" was a political move, meant to demonize those opposed to GM crops.
Personally, I think it's possible some GM crops are okay. But I'm going to be leery of any food that is technically classified by the FDA as a pesticide or herbicide (Roundup Ready corn and soy are, if I remember correctly, classified as such).
Since there isn't really a problem with underproduction in the US right now, it seems like the only goal with GM foods is to be able to bring the sectors of trademark and patent ownership to the farming arena. Normal seeds are owned by the farmer; GM seeds are owned by the corporations who created the seed in the first place.
Don't give me that golden rice bullshit, either. Studies have shown you'd have to eat buckets of the stuff to get a minimum daily requirement of Vitamin A. If the kids need beta carotene, then feed them veggies, not mutant rice. You can also always enrich rice with vitamins and minerals, just like they do here in the states.
Ultimately, spread of GM technology in food means increased corporate ownership, not only of farms and the entire foodchain, but also over the ability to grow food at all. I am always weirded out by people who champion GM out of one side of their mouth and rail against digital rights management on the other.
One of the things that these devices could do, according to the article, is to watch pots left on the stove or to keep kids out of the cookie jar.
Basically, these would be tools that would let us put less and less reliance on our own observational abilities.
We should be watching the stove and paying attention to it. We should be keeping track of what our kids are doing (Sure, you can't watch your kids all the time, but one cookie snatch from the jar isn't really a problem; the problem would be endemic overeating or a disposition towards stealing or taking from others, and you *should* be able to watch for those). Also, a cookie jar monitor says that you don't trust your kids and that you can't be bothered to care whether they're trustworth or not.
The more tools and aids we use, the less we exercise those parts of our minds, bodies, and characters. We use cars and our whole country is getting fat because we never exercise anymore. Automatic spell checkers are turning people into bad spellers (sorry, no facts to back that up, just a hunch). And the Internet has made -- well, me, at the very least -- very lazy about looking up information. If I can't google it, generally I feel like it isn't worth my time. And if I can, generally googling is as far as I go. I don't bother to go to the library to look up journals or books on the topic.
Privacy concerns aside, it's time to start asking ourselves whether we want to live in a society where machines are no longer just useful tools, but are taking over our roles as mindful individuals.
On the environment, especially open spaces/parks, conservation, pollution and recycling, most Libertarians I know are definitely more liberal than conservative, but not as accutely liberal as the Greens.
I did make a generalization, and I'm encouraged to know that there are libertarians that support the environment.
I have also heard Libertarians saying that the government shouldn't own public lands, and that public parks and open spaces should be privately owned and that their use should be determined by the free market. (Quick quiz -- what's more profitable: a public park that anyone can enter for free, or a strip mall?) I had assumed this was an opinion commonly held by Libertarians.
Also, it's weird, but I guess I also make a distinction between people who are Libertarians, and people who belong to a Libertarian political machine. Which is to say, I have a lot of friends who, when pressed, call themselves Libertarian. I would never think that those people would want to wantonly exploit the environment. However, I *would* believe that a Libertarian party or PAC would be willing to do so.
How about comparing the rise of the radical right in America, and perhaps even their poster child, Bush, to Hitler?
How DARE you say such a thing about the great leader of our Homeland!
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...Or Geotrust, which is even cheaper, or FreeSSL (not free, by the way) or Comodo (InstantSSL) which are both well under $100.
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All of them seem to be pretty good. I use Comodo, simply because that's the cheapest people who were around a year or two ago, and they offered the highest compatible certificate, and now I'm a partner. They offer pretty good service and very good prices, and their certificates are more compatible than Geotrust or FreeSSL (Geotrust and FreeSSL are only compatible on IE 5+ and NS 7+ browsers and knockoffs thereof, while InstantSSL is compatible with NS4+ and IE3+).
Yes, it does. It probably costs them 1,000s for each patch (more like 100,000s), so you have to divide that by the number of systems to get a cost-per-patch, which may be minimal but will *always* be > 0. Also, there are bandwidth costs, promoting costs, PR people who spread the word about the patch, techs which post detailed articles on the patch, and probably customer service techs who stand by to deal with their very important customers.
Since a patch goes out to (hopefully) so many systems, it isn't much on a per system basis. But it still costs them a lot of money.
Hmmmm...
Libertarians aren't "right wing" in the general sense, but you can split apart different issues and say whether people take left or right wing stances on those given issues.
So Libertarians are very "Left Wing" (hopefully!) when it comes to their attitudes towards drugs, gays, prayer in school, etc. However, on other issues, particularly in the environment, they are very "Right Wing".
In the same way that most of you probably would cringe at the thought of a socialist on the Federal Reserve, you *should* cringe at the thought of a libertarian overseeing environmental policy decisions, because they would be based on the concept of "free market", which essentially means raping the earth.
Maybe this is incorrect, but I'd rather err looking at a position presented by people who are expressedly *for* the planet than for people who are for the free market. Market-driven policies work turn everything into commodities and goods, and unfortunately these generally aren't priced by their intrinsic value but rather by how cheaply they can be made or gathered, and how much people are willing to pay for them. With the government already basically giving the forests on public lands to logging companies for practically nothing, how much worse would it become if all restrictions on land use were abolished?
I think this Ask Slashdot is something of a moot point. If current recycling practices actually do introduce more toxins and problems than simply throwing items away, then it's those practices that need to be fixed. There's no question that recycling really is "worth it", because recycling means that resources that still have use don't go towards the non-productive purpose of filling up landfills to capacity and driving us to transport trash to new landfills all over the country. From that perspective, I'd genuinely like to see someone try to argue that recycling is still not worth it.
We are living on a planet with finite resources, and I think it's extremely short-sighted to think that we can just go on comsuming and discarding without expecting some sort of negative cumulative effect.
Of course, the best and most important step is to reduce the amount of future waste (packaging, paper, etc) you consume *before* you even decide whether you recycle it or throw it away.
and if you wish to mock the evidence provided, consider providing some evidence of your own,
I think in this case, the evidence is merely that this site has a strong bias in favor of environmental deregulation. As a result, I feel you can take their perspective with a grain of salt. I don't visit a Evangelic Christian website to find out about evolution, I wouldn't go to a neo-nazi website to do research about the Holocaust, and I wouldn't go to a socialist website to learn about how the Stock Market works.
Oh, and if you transfer a domain from another registrar to them (like I did from 000domains), they charge $8 for the transfer, but kick in another year
Hmmm...unless they added *2* years to the previous expiration date, then they weren't doing anything special.
*Whenever* you transfer a domain name to another registrar, the expiration date is automatically extended by another year. So basically you're getting a $2 incentive to transfer to them from another registrar. The added year is actually a requirement.
For those of you who are interested in RegisterFly but don't want to line the pockets of some anonymous coward, you can access RegisterFly here. I wouldn't recommend it, though, as it seems people have had problems, especially with their hosting.
I'll second them for a recommendation.
We have 30+ domains with them. They make it very easy to keep track of all of the domains you have. When I log through my technical contact login (They offer a separate login for each contact, Tech, Admin, Owner, and Billing), it lists all of the domains I'm entered as a tech contact for.
This means I can administer all of my domains at once.
Best of all, separate logins means that each of my customers (the "Owner" contacts) has a login that they can use to get into their domains and change their current contact information, as well as keep tabs on the status of their domain (when will it expire, etc).
I don't know if they have a phone contact, but they generally respond to e-mails within 15 minutes or so during business hours.
In addition to sending reminders to the administrators, they send a reminder 5 days before expiration to the technical contact, just in case the admin isn't available to respond.
When you do go into the renewal form, it displays all of the domains you own, and when they are about to expire. You can theoretically renew a batch of them at once, but since most of my records have different owner contact records, I renew them individually. However, for someone who maintains many domain names with identical contacts, this would be ideal.
Also, they're only $13.50 per year, which isn't as cheap as some of these other services, but beats the pants off of Verisign.
Stan:You know, I learned something today. I learned that maybe, color laser printers are better than injet printers. Also, tape backups are gay.
Kyle:Yeah...[concerned] You know, it seems like something's still not right. [camera pans to BSD]
Cartman:Yeah, something feels...unfinished [drum roll]
Stan:Wh-what could it be? [the drum roll heads for a climax]
THE END
BSD:(Yee he hee!) [end credits roll]
Hmmm...that must be why there's no Beatles albums available through the iTunes Music Store. They have some Beatles songs in various compilations, as well as plenty of covers, but not a single album.
A microchip could identify exactly which dose/drug you're on.
Not if you RTFA.
It seems here they're using the term microchip as in, "A tiny thin thing", not anything electronic at all.
I'm guessing that they're using circuit board-making technology -- etching small groves in a silicon wafer -- to make these drug containers.
But the chips have no electronics at all, no semiconductors, no nothing. Their sole use is in containing the drug.
I don't see microchips being able to make the kind of diagnoses you impart to it -- analyzing the drug chemicals in a system generally requires a lot of reactive tests, right? Something an isolated chip couldn't do, probably.
Besides, I'd feel much more comfortable if qualified health personal did a toxicity test on me before inserting a multiple dose drug into my system, TYVM.
So, no these things are more similar to slow release pills. What makes them unique is their ability to release quantitative doses over a measured space of time. Since these doses are released in more controlled quantities, you could use this to administer a medicine whose dosage should change over a period of time. For example, the initial doses could be smaller, and then slowly increase over time. My understanding is that most long term implanted drug devices (like Norplant), release a constant and identical amount of the drug over a given period.
Right, because as I read it it's an archive for marxist and leftist articles.
Kinda how you wouldn't expect to find a copy of The Communist Manifesto on Rush Limbaugh's website -- or Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, for that matter. Both are books that don't fall into Rush Limbaughs sphere of interest.
Centralized communism didn't turn out the way that Marx envisioned; that doesn't make some of the social criticism or observations from the left any less valid. Most of the advances in labor laws that exist today -- the 40 hour work week, anti-child labor laws, safety laws -- were brought about by protests and agitations from unions, back when unions were strongly leftist and many of the leaders were reading works by Marx and Engels.
Personally, I think it's a shame that we don't teach the history of the labor movement in the United States, or about the huge debt in improved living conditions that we owe to it. Most of the people who were alive during the first labor uprisings are long dead. With the loss of manufactoring jobs, and the corporatization of union leaders, the legacy of the labor movement is dying out, and it seems likely that in just a few decades only a few history scholars will know or remember anything about it.
modded "Interesting"....*sigh*....
Mods, think. Is there, in fact, a stack of DVDs you can purchase labelled "Library of Congress, part 1 of 5" etc.?
No. Whenever lay tech writers talk about data, they describe it in terms of Libraries of Congress, as in, "This new storage format is equivalent to 10 Libraries of Congress" -- which I've always felt is a pretty bullshit quantizer, as the library obviously has things like photographs, movies, and albums that would take a lot of honking space, so much so that no storage medium exists that could conviently and economically store even 1 Library of Congress.
Anyway, for those of you who didn't get it, it's a joke.
Speaking from experience, Everclear is the purest form of ethanol available at your local Beverage Plus.
Not in Virginia it isn't. My understanding is that in order to purchase alcohol at this proof, you have to have some kind of special license. The ABC laws in Virginia are pretty draconian.
Technically, Irish Car Bombs are illegal too. No mixing of liquor and beer. (No word on skittles yet).
Yep, I remember seeing it too. It was this old guy, and he spread the paste on an egg, pointed a blowtorch at the egg for a few seconds, then cracked the egg, showing it was still completely raw.
They had a tile made out of the stuff. It was able to withstand a high energy laser that burned through a steel plate.
Whatever this junk is, it appears to work, but this current guy didn't necessarily invent it out of thin air; that other guy had made a paste like it earlier.
From the show I saw, I remember that the paste is opaque and white and appears to have the consistency of baking soda toothpaste.
I meant in order to edit the bookmarks... then you have to use the drawers.
Is that a fairly stable release? Which release should I go for?
Okay, yeah....I was just realizing that I use the "mailboxes" window all the time in Eudora, which is *kind of* like a drawer.
However, in both of these cases, it's being used for navigation and organization, much like a finder listing. In those cases, it makes sense. I don't think it makes sense when you're looking at a single item.
Yeah, well, they could always have gone ahead and made a pop-up window with the same layout as the info drawer.
I hate slide out drawers. They're not intuitive at all. They're eye candy based. That's my main gripe with Camino -- bookmarks and history have to be accessed from a side drawer.
It breaks the system because you either have to purposefully make your window narrower, or the side bar will be offscreen when it "pops up" (or out, rather). Also, because it's on the side, it doesn't have a featured focus. When I first tried adding an event using 1.5, I doubled clicked to create an event, and wondered why the info window wasn't showing up. Because the drawer was opening to the side, I didn't notice it because I wasn't looking for it. In any case, most of the drawer was offscreen, because I didn't know that I was supposed to provide space on the left for it to show up.
If someone can give me an example of a side drawer that really makes sense and is more useful than a floating pop-up window, please let me know.
I tend to run ext3 on all of my servers, because while it's not necessarily the absolute fastest, it's fast enough, and more importantly, it's rock solid in terms of stability.
Right on. I think it would be much more useful to have a stability test. Take a system, and try doing weird things to it, such as running a known bug that might cause a kernel panic, and seeing how the file system deals with it.
Unplug the computer, and see how many times you can do this before the filesystem gets messed up or confused.
The statistics in these benchmarks appeal to geeks because they relate directly to "performance". It translates directly to the "horsepower" and "0 to 60 in x seconds" statistics for cars (or even, for the eco-conscious, mpg). These statistics are interesting and useful to understand the overall power of the automobile, but for a truly enjoyable car owning experience, you want to find out how reliable the car is, how often it breaks down, and how much it costs to repair. Yeah, I wouldn't mind driving a Ferrari for a day, but I'd much rather own a Subaru or Corolla.
For most people, the most important feature of a filesystem should be how well it maintains its data, and how little it gets in the way (You probably want to avoid filesystems that are CPU hogs). The only statistic that seems a little off is block output K/s for ext3_journal. If I read that correctly, it can only write ~6MB/s. That might be not enough for people who are using a hard drive to store digital video as it streams in.
wow...yup, that's Insightful alright.
Who's been giving pot to the mods again?
Yeah, that was my idea as soon as I read this too. I mean, unless this guy works at some place that's located six miles from a train stop in the middle of the salt flats. That's the only situation I can think of where it would be flat enough to use a scooter, but there wouldn't be a bus that dropped him off closer to his work.
Sounds like this guy just wants an excuse to use one of those Razor scooters.
Hey man, you wanna play? Go for it. But I'd recommend choosing a more standard route. Either take the bus, or use a bike. There may be an arrangement that the public transit people make for bikes -- maybe you can store them somewhere at the train station or something. Who knows. I do know that most cities' public transit systems now realize that they need to start catering to bikers, since they tend to be a nice portion of the users of public transit. All of the buses in our town have a bike rack in the front and back.