Someone with mod points should untroll this guy. How is stating the obvious truth troll-worthy? Opera is not free software as the term is used when speaking about the "free software community". Opera "is proprietary software and closed source." Citation. It might be no-cost software, but it certainly isn't free.
"5 - Is telemarketing good business? Junk mail? Sure, the rules are level, it's a tool that can be used. But it's a detriment. It's a drain. "
This is your thinking, and this is why you're wrong.
What is a drain about Junk Mail? It GIVES PEOPLE JOBS. It MAKES PEOPLE MONEY.
It's a needless waste of natural resources, trees and oil come to mind immediately but there must be others. It does nothing but cause me frustration and increase waste. And you can be sure the junk mailers aren't contributing to even the financial costs of landfill space, let alone the environmental costs of their actions. It is a "tragedy of the commons" situation.
As for "job creation" -- so would roving bands of rock throwing hoodlums. Think of all the glass companies and installers that would employ. Now, breaking people's windows is illegal because it wrongfully deprives the window owners of their personal resources. The distinction with junk mail is that sadly, junk mail is still legal because people haven't figured out that junk mailers are wrongfully depriving us of our resources (money to clean up after the bastards, and environmental destruction to make the crap). So from a moral rather than legal perspective, where "moral" includes the notion that depriving people of their personal resources is wrong, junk mail is just as immoral as property damage. It's just sadly legal.
In the dark ocean beneath the Antarctic ice, researchers have found scores of species they've never seen before, including strange jellyfish and other gelatinous organisms that thrive without light
Rain is often seasonal. Part of the problem in the Western US, is that if there is not a sufficiently cold winter, snow pack in the mountains melts early and then in the dry season (summer), there isn't enough water flowing down the rivers because it already flowed away. Summer BTW coincides with the growing season. Water and ice are not really the same thing -- sure it's all water, but snow is water storage and rain is water runoff.
Well, "stuff that matters" is also in the tagline. Nerds can be interested in many things -- that is part of being a nerd in some ways -- you know, developing a large understanding of a number of intellectual topics.
Of course the adult thing to do when you have a tailgater following you is to get out of their way. Change lane where posible or even find a drive way to pull in to to let them by.
I remember once driving in S. Cal in a torrential downpour -- I'm from WA and a bit more used to wet driving -- anyway, I was on the freeway and it was like a giant puddle. I had slowed to 50 (this is when the speed limit was 55 BTW) because of the road conditions. I saw a person coming up behind me at a high rate of speed and I began slowing as soon as she was in the passing lane to let her get by quicker. Good thing too -- she hyrdoplaned right off the road and smashed into the bushes when she went from the outside lane to the inside. It's great when courtesy is properly rewarded.
Once I was driving on a mountain road in S. California. It was narrow and windy and ran along the ridge of the mountain. Suddenly, a white sports car was right on my ass. I was going about 25 (probably the speed limit) and enjoying the view on this lightly traveled road. I pulled off in a turnout to let the asshole go around me. One mile later, I saw the car off the road smashed into a small tree. In fact, it was the only tree within 100' in either direction of it. On the other side of the tree was some 1000's of feet of very steep incline. I laughed as I passed and tooted my horn at the very lucky teenage driver.
Well, that's a specific search of usenet. Search the web for "talkorigins.org" -- you'd expect it to be the first link. Rather, there are some references to it in other sites but no actual link to the site itself.
If everyone is too busy opening packages to stock shelves, sweep floors, or checkout customers, the store manager/owner surely will notice becuase they'll have to hire more people.
Perhaps -- each block that makes up an entry has start and end tags as well as some tags in the middle for various kinds of data -- each entry might differ in data types depending on what is recorded (e.g., one might have id, date, time, description, note; and another just id, date, time, description). What needs to happen is the two files must be compared and then where they are different, changes made So if Cal_1 is missing an entry on Cal_2, it would be added to Cal_2. If both have different versions of the same event -- then probably pick the latter one, or present a choice to the user. I'm not an rsync wizard though so whether it would do this or not means much googling which I'll do if I ever have a free moment not occupied by slashdot.
Well exactly. I was doing this in th 90s when I worked for an employer. Now I have my own small office running on linux desktops and mac laptops. The expense involved in something like exchange is not worth the added convenience -- I don't want to spend $400 for a 5 user exchange server, plus whatever the requisite MS OS costs, plus buy another computer -- that's easily more than $1000.
What would be nice for very small businesses such as mine, is a linux based calendering system. It doesn't even have to be free (in any sense) -- but less than $150 would be about the right price (but not a yearly subscription, at least 10 users). It just doesn't makes sense though to spend more than that on a four person office when my current cludge works adequately (secretary makes all changes, I just copy the calendar from her computer to mine).
Realisticly, such a solution wouldn't work because even my calendar information can contain confidential information so letting google have it won't work out.
For business users, I think the lack of an integrated way to share calendars is a real shame. I realize that such things probably aren't that glamorous -- but I'd love to be able to edit my calendar and have my secretary edit my calendar. Maybe there is something that lets that happen right now and if so, I'd love to hear about it. I do recall being excited by Hula when I heard about it before because it seemed like "finally" something would happen. So I'm dissapointed by this news.
My present solution is for my secretary to manage my calendar with korganizer -- I then just overwrite my calendar on my mac laptop (ical works fine with the korganizer files). But it would be nice to not have to call her up and say "please put ____ on my calendar." I'd rather just do it and have the calendars sync up. The ics files are understandable text files and I've thought of trying to make a sync system by comparring the files on my computer and my secretary's, but I just dabble at computer stuff -- I'm not a real programmer and I can't risk my calendar to my low quality skills. So still I wait.
So please Mr. Ballmer, don't squirt on me, K? Thanks...
Well, if he did squirt on you it would be quite the trick since he isn't a female. I think the "squirting" metaphor was invented either by someone who has never been exposed to porn, or who wanted to give Zune some kind of kink appeal. Either way, it just sounds messy.
I haven't RTFA'd, but the summary says "Florida Supreme Court" which means in almost all liklihood, federal law had absolutely nothing to do with this. It seems the question involves an issue of state law -- particularly, the definition of "email". Someone needs to look up the actual FL State code to see what the definition is. It may well be vague. If it is vague, traditional rules of statutory construction allow the court to interpret it beyond plain language. They do this by looking at legislative intent, history, and other related provisions. By the same token, the law may have been written broadly enough on purpose to cover email like communications in which case the ruling would be a no-brainer. Like I said thought, haven't RTFA'd or read the FL law in question.
Man... when I was in college the only thing I had to show my ID for was dinner and checking out books from the library. Wasn't even that long ago (graduated 1992). Maybe I'll sound like a foil hatter, but it seems we're training kids that they need an ID to go anywhere on campus so that in the future, they aren't too concerned when the checkpoints go up and they have show ID everytime they cross a county line.
Why not have the machine print out a human/machine readable ballot (names with bubbles filled next to your choices) and then have an optical scanner read the votes? This gives you a stack of ballots that can be hand counted if necessary. It eliminates people accidentally spoiling ballots (no hanging chads etc.). You don't have to worry about a bunch of votes getting digitally corrupted and being completely unrecoverable. You don't have privacy issues that can occur where an observer keeps track of who goes into the booth and then reviews the printed paper trail (assuming the trail is generated as people vote, it is trivial if tedious to figure out who voted for what/who).
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Someone with mod points should untroll this guy. How is stating the obvious truth troll-worthy? Opera is not free software as the term is used when speaking about the "free software community". Opera "is proprietary software and closed source." Citation. It might be no-cost software, but it certainly isn't free.
It's a needless waste of natural resources, trees and oil come to mind immediately but there must be others. It does nothing but cause me frustration and increase waste. And you can be sure the junk mailers aren't contributing to even the financial costs of landfill space, let alone the environmental costs of their actions. It is a "tragedy of the commons" situation.
As for "job creation" -- so would roving bands of rock throwing hoodlums. Think of all the glass companies and installers that would employ. Now, breaking people's windows is illegal because it wrongfully deprives the window owners of their personal resources. The distinction with junk mail is that sadly, junk mail is still legal because people haven't figured out that junk mailers are wrongfully depriving us of our resources (money to clean up after the bastards, and environmental destruction to make the crap). So from a moral rather than legal perspective, where "moral" includes the notion that depriving people of their personal resources is wrong, junk mail is just as immoral as property damage. It's just sadly legal.
My god -- it's full of geeks.
Rain is often seasonal. Part of the problem in the Western US, is that if there is not a sufficiently cold winter, snow pack in the mountains melts early and then in the dry season (summer), there isn't enough water flowing down the rivers because it already flowed away. Summer BTW coincides with the growing season. Water and ice are not really the same thing -- sure it's all water, but snow is water storage and rain is water runoff.
Well, "stuff that matters" is also in the tagline. Nerds can be interested in many things -- that is part of being a nerd in some ways -- you know, developing a large understanding of a number of intellectual topics.
I remember once driving in S. Cal in a torrential downpour -- I'm from WA and a bit more used to wet driving -- anyway, I was on the freeway and it was like a giant puddle. I had slowed to 50 (this is when the speed limit was 55 BTW) because of the road conditions. I saw a person coming up behind me at a high rate of speed and I began slowing as soon as she was in the passing lane to let her get by quicker. Good thing too -- she hyrdoplaned right off the road and smashed into the bushes when she went from the outside lane to the inside. It's great when courtesy is properly rewarded.
Once I was driving on a mountain road in S. California. It was narrow and windy and ran along the ridge of the mountain. Suddenly, a white sports car was right on my ass. I was going about 25 (probably the speed limit) and enjoying the view on this lightly traveled road. I pulled off in a turnout to let the asshole go around me. One mile later, I saw the car off the road smashed into a small tree. In fact, it was the only tree within 100' in either direction of it. On the other side of the tree was some 1000's of feet of very steep incline. I laughed as I passed and tooted my horn at the very lucky teenage driver.
Well, that's a specific search of usenet. Search the web for "talkorigins.org" -- you'd expect it to be the first link. Rather, there are some references to it in other sites but no actual link to the site itself.
In Soviet Russia, phone listens to you.
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oh wait
If everyone is too busy opening packages to stock shelves, sweep floors, or checkout customers, the store manager/owner surely will notice becuase they'll have to hire more people.
Perhaps -- each block that makes up an entry has start and end tags as well as some tags in the middle for various kinds of data -- each entry might differ in data types depending on what is recorded (e.g., one might have id, date, time, description, note; and another just id, date, time, description). What needs to happen is the two files must be compared and then where they are different, changes made So if Cal_1 is missing an entry on Cal_2, it would be added to Cal_2. If both have different versions of the same event -- then probably pick the latter one, or present a choice to the user. I'm not an rsync wizard though so whether it would do this or not means much googling which I'll do if I ever have a free moment not occupied by slashdot.
I don't have any MS software in my office so I don't think this is going to work for me.
Well exactly. I was doing this in th 90s when I worked for an employer. Now I have my own small office running on linux desktops and mac laptops. The expense involved in something like exchange is not worth the added convenience -- I don't want to spend $400 for a 5 user exchange server, plus whatever the requisite MS OS costs, plus buy another computer -- that's easily more than $1000.
What would be nice for very small businesses such as mine, is a linux based calendering system. It doesn't even have to be free (in any sense) -- but less than $150 would be about the right price (but not a yearly subscription, at least 10 users). It just doesn't makes sense though to spend more than that on a four person office when my current cludge works adequately (secretary makes all changes, I just copy the calendar from her computer to mine).
Realisticly, such a solution wouldn't work because even my calendar information can contain confidential information so letting google have it won't work out.
For business users, I think the lack of an integrated way to share calendars is a real shame. I realize that such things probably aren't that glamorous -- but I'd love to be able to edit my calendar and have my secretary edit my calendar. Maybe there is something that lets that happen right now and if so, I'd love to hear about it. I do recall being excited by Hula when I heard about it before because it seemed like "finally" something would happen. So I'm dissapointed by this news.
My present solution is for my secretary to manage my calendar with korganizer -- I then just overwrite my calendar on my mac laptop (ical works fine with the korganizer files). But it would be nice to not have to call her up and say "please put ____ on my calendar." I'd rather just do it and have the calendars sync up. The ics files are understandable text files and I've thought of trying to make a sync system by comparring the files on my computer and my secretary's, but I just dabble at computer stuff -- I'm not a real programmer and I can't risk my calendar to my low quality skills. So still I wait.
300 dot/in * 300 dot/in * 256 colors/dot * 85 in/page = 1,958,400,000 dot colors/page
Imagine each colored dot as a bit. 244,800,000 bytes.
Well, if he did squirt on you it would be quite the trick since he isn't a female. I think the "squirting" metaphor was invented either by someone who has never been exposed to porn, or who wanted to give Zune some kind of kink appeal. Either way, it just sounds messy.
Won't someone please think of little 3yo Sebastion? Imagine what all those radio waves will do to his thin skull!
On second thought, I'm full of it -- ignore me. Anything interenet related can easily cross borders so the commerce clause may well have effect.
I haven't RTFA'd, but the summary says "Florida Supreme Court" which means in almost all liklihood, federal law had absolutely nothing to do with this. It seems the question involves an issue of state law -- particularly, the definition of "email". Someone needs to look up the actual FL State code to see what the definition is. It may well be vague. If it is vague, traditional rules of statutory construction allow the court to interpret it beyond plain language. They do this by looking at legislative intent, history, and other related provisions. By the same token, the law may have been written broadly enough on purpose to cover email like communications in which case the ruling would be a no-brainer. Like I said thought, haven't RTFA'd or read the FL law in question.
Man ... when I was in college the only thing I had to show my ID for was dinner and checking out books from the library. Wasn't even that long ago (graduated 1992). Maybe I'll sound like a foil hatter, but it seems we're training kids that they need an ID to go anywhere on campus so that in the future, they aren't too concerned when the checkpoints go up and they have show ID everytime they cross a county line.
Why not have the machine print out a human/machine readable ballot (names with bubbles filled next to your choices) and then have an optical scanner read the votes? This gives you a stack of ballots that can be hand counted if necessary. It eliminates people accidentally spoiling ballots (no hanging chads etc.). You don't have to worry about a bunch of votes getting digitally corrupted and being completely unrecoverable. You don't have privacy issues that can occur where an observer keeps track of who goes into the booth and then reviews the printed paper trail (assuming the trail is generated as people vote, it is trivial if tedious to figure out who voted for what/who).
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This isn't my idea BTW. I first heard this suggestion on Science Friday interview with Avi Rubin:
http://avirubin.com/
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2006/Oct/hour1
"pickup-truck republican"
hilarious. The first NTP joke worthy of moderation and sadly, I have no points.
Got a citation for that "gaining" bit? Sounds like hot air to me but if you have actual evidence, cough it up.