Years ago I worked in a Distribution Center for the GAP. I was one of the ppl in the MIS staff there and got to work in a somewhat relaxed land of mainframes and cubicles. This one operator didn't fit in too well with the crowd, took a few too many sick days and showed up late a few times (he was commuting over an hour). one friday he called in sick, the boss said ok no problem and hung up, promptly called security had his key card deactivated, all access to everything removed and told one of the other operators to box his stuff up and take it out to security. no notice no call no you're fired. He got to drive an hour the next monday to find out he couldn't even get in the building. That's a little corse.
if this were to preclude search engines? (how %90 of anything on the web is found). oh by the way could you please shoot out any chance of someone finding my site?
I agree, I live in Baltimore, we've been doing this already in Maryland for 3-4 years, out pre's are 410 301 443 and 240, it's a little annoying because you can call some 443's from 410 locally and vice versa and others you can't, honestly on most of my business calls i have to give them my area code anyway.
I use a PCMCIA reader (no moving parts) for a 3.5" drive bay, my CF ram came with a PCMCIA adapter, tab a into slot b insert whole thing into slot C wammo storage, i have a 15MB (yes 15)and a 64MB, i can write the 64 which is newer CF tech (sansdisk i think) in about a minute, erasing takes about 2, i've never lost a file (knock on wood) and move the memory between my didgital camera and a ce device quite often, i usually keep the 15 in my wallet it works great.
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i was all excited, during a football gmae the other night i was watchin this groovy commercial with all these cgi fish buggin around, i though wow that's pretty hoopy and all, and just about deficated when i saw it was a novell add!! now if they'd just take a little more money and make some new functionality. i really miss novell.
cordless desktop pro with the ergo keyboard and scrolly mouse, been using it for 3 months now same batteries(always keep a spare pair around anyway) play tribes and q3 with no noticeable lag in controls. I love it so much i took it to work and ordered another for home. I've tried some of the older solutions (the old IR stuff) the lag was horrible, and made me feel like i was disconnected from what i was doing, this keyboard just sits on my lap and keeps pluggin away. *****
but only for smaller time spammers, it looks up the abuse address for their ISP, and in some cases their ISP's ISP and registers complaints with proof (headers tracking #'s and all) it wipes out most of the small stuff, don't imagine it would work for amazon. you know tho, i haven't found any customer service department that would bend the rules to fix aproblem if you go up the corporate food chain enough, "Let me speak to the person who tells you what to do!"
heck on my network i'd setup a sniffer on the line going out, all traffic funnels to 1 or 2 places, even if i was sniffing both with 2 laptops catching all the data would be easy.
I'd make a mint, problem would be proving i was the first one there.
This whole patenting things that have been in use for years is incredible, like the first caveman (should there have been such a thing) that decicded the wheel was a good idea could have some distant relative that cashes in on it now, preposterous. I say what's done is done, if it was your idea and you couldn't at least act on it in a reasonable ammout of time tough crunchies.
true true, but there is another effect at work here, you brain has a strange effect on image processing, you have to remember that you are not processing stills but actually motion video, the brain can take partial video information over a period of time and stitch it together to tell you what you are looking at. it really dosen't help the initial crappy quality you'll see but you should be able to read.
Take a digital movie and compress the **** out of it, ok any one frame is unreadable, now watch the movie, though irratating you definately see whats going on (for the most part).
www.audible.com has the entire hitch hikers guide series in audio format, but they wither want you to use a wince device ar their own player to make it portable, you can also stream it off as realmedia
I know, I know it's still a long ways off, but you have to admin 128k wireless good all over Baltimore DC and like 7 other Major cities (they're shooting for 21 more this year) but alas if i wasn;t being subsidized by work the $74 a month unlimited is completely unreasonable. though since it's n external modem i can attack it to my pda laptop or even a friends desktop while i'm there. the problems with this technology are the latency is HUGE i get 300-1000MS ping all the time, and there are dead spots all over the place (usually 10ftx10ft or so) they're coverage is still spotty even in real areas but conceptually as they grow they'll be able to lower the price, crank up the bandwidth and improve coverage. (maybe some competition would be good)
This battle has been going on for some time, I personally would have no problems with a software company taking note of my hardware in installation of software so that they could better prepare and support the platform and hardware I choose(or anyones for that matter). It makes a lot of sense. But how do you limit what they are allowed to take? There should be a standardized part of each install that meantions we are sending information about your hardware to the software company so that we may better support your hardware in the future. There definately is a need for this information to be recorded and summarized, but it needs to happen in a way as not to truly invade anyones privacy. I don't care if they want to know what vid card or platform or even processor (excluding sn heh)I use but I don't want them logging where I play, snooping around for what other games I play or sending me 'direct marketed advertising'.
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Years ago I worked in a Distribution Center for the GAP. I was one of the ppl in the MIS staff there and got to work in a somewhat relaxed land of mainframes and cubicles. This one operator didn't fit in too well with the crowd, took a few too many sick days and showed up late a few times (he was commuting over an hour). one friday he called in sick, the boss said ok no problem and hung up, promptly called security had his key card deactivated, all access to everything removed and told one of the other operators to box his stuff up and take it out to security. no notice no call no you're fired. He got to drive an hour the next monday to find out he couldn't even get in the building. That's a little corse.
if this were to preclude search engines? (how %90 of anything on the web is found). oh by the way could you please shoot out any chance of someone finding my site?
maybe you could submit your own images too ;P
I agree, I live in Baltimore, we've been doing this already in Maryland for 3-4 years, out pre's are 410 301 443 and 240, it's a little annoying because you can call some 443's from 410 locally and vice versa and others you can't, honestly on most of my business calls i have to give them my area code anyway.
I use a PCMCIA reader (no moving parts) for a 3.5" drive bay, my CF ram came with a PCMCIA adapter, tab a into slot b insert whole thing into slot C wammo storage, i have a 15MB (yes 15)and a 64MB, i can write the 64 which is newer CF tech (sansdisk i think) in about a minute, erasing takes about 2, i've never lost a file (knock on wood) and move the memory between my didgital camera and a ce device quite often, i usually keep the 15 in my wallet it works great.
i was all excited, during a football gmae the other night i was watchin this groovy commercial with all these cgi fish buggin around, i though wow that's pretty hoopy and all, and just about deficated when i saw it was a novell add!! now if they'd just take a little more money and make some new functionality. i really miss novell.
cordless desktop pro with the ergo keyboard and scrolly mouse, been using it for 3 months now same batteries(always keep a spare pair around anyway) play tribes and q3 with no noticeable lag in controls. I love it so much i took it to work and ordered another for home. I've tried some of the older solutions (the old IR stuff) the lag was horrible, and made me feel like i was disconnected from what i was doing, this keyboard just sits on my lap and keeps pluggin away. *****
but only for smaller time spammers, it looks up the abuse address for their ISP, and in some cases their ISP's ISP and registers complaints with proof (headers tracking #'s and all) it wipes out most of the small stuff, don't imagine it would work for amazon. you know tho, i haven't found any customer service department that would bend the rules to fix aproblem if you go up the corporate food chain enough, "Let me speak to the person who tells you what to do!"
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heck on my network i'd setup a sniffer on the line going out, all traffic funnels to 1 or 2 places, even if i was sniffing both with 2 laptops catching all the data would be easy.
-actual mileage may vary
I'd make a mint, problem would be proving i was the first one there.
This whole patenting things that have been in use for years is incredible, like the first caveman (should there have been such a thing) that decicded the wheel was a good idea could have some distant relative that cashes in on it now, preposterous. I say what's done is done, if it was your idea and you couldn't at least act on it in a reasonable ammout of time tough crunchies.
does anyone hold a patent on patenting?
true true, but there is another effect at work here, you brain has a strange effect on image processing, you have to remember that you are not processing stills but actually motion video, the brain can take partial video information over a period of time and stitch it together to tell you what you are looking at. it really dosen't help the initial crappy quality you'll see but you should be able to read.
Take a digital movie and compress the **** out of it, ok any one frame is unreadable, now watch the movie, though irratating you definately see whats going on (for the most part).
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
strangely enough, there will be 12 more buttons but none of them will take you to the web.
hmm,
press 1 to see our pre defined content
press 2 to see out pre defined content
press 3 to see . . .
www.audible.com has the entire hitch hikers guide series in audio format, but they wither want you to use a wince device ar their own player to make it portable, you can also stream it off as realmedia
I know, I know it's still a long ways off, but you have to admin 128k wireless good all over Baltimore DC and like 7 other Major cities (they're shooting for 21 more this year) but alas if i wasn;t being subsidized by work the $74 a month unlimited is completely unreasonable. though since it's n external modem i can attack it to my pda laptop or even a friends desktop while i'm there. the problems with this technology are the latency is HUGE i get 300-1000MS ping all the time, and there are dead spots all over the place (usually 10ftx10ft or so) they're coverage is still spotty even in real areas but conceptually as they grow they'll be able to lower the price, crank up the bandwidth and improve coverage. (maybe some competition would be good)
that's just my 2 cents worth.
This battle has been going on for some time, I personally would have no problems with a software company taking note of my hardware in installation of software so that they could better prepare and support the platform and hardware I choose(or anyones for that matter). It makes a lot of sense.
But how do you limit what they are allowed to take? There should be a standardized part of each install that meantions we are sending information about your hardware to the software company so that we may better support your hardware in the future.
There definately is a need for this information to be recorded and summarized, but it needs to happen in a way as not to truly invade anyones privacy. I don't care if they want to know what vid card or platform or even processor (excluding sn heh)I use but I don't want them logging where I play, snooping around for what other games I play or sending me 'direct marketed advertising'.