Comcast? They just bought out AT&T cable in my area. All of a sudden, I'm getting 6 spams a day on an email account that got 2 in the prior year. Conspiracy??
They like being slasdotted!. From a comment posted after the article (how's that for RTFAing?):
guys... a link to this topic was posted on slashdot... so, me may have a bit of a server overhaul...
(I didn't think this was slashdot worthy, but hey... when you make front page on your 3 most visited sites *slashdot, xboxhacker, xbox-scene*... it puts a warm fuzzy feeling in your heart =p
Yes - the discoverers should reveal the information. If a bank with a hole in their vault refuses to fix the problem, that bank endangers the assets of its depositors. By widely publicizing the hole, the bank will (probably) do something and even if they don't, their customers will. Losing all your clients is a great motivator to fix a problem.
And it seems this card system controls more important things than just money - physical access. Wouldn't it be better for an individual to know that the locks suck, and take appropriate precautions, than to trust the system and end up assaulted?
Whistleblowers have long had protections under the law because there is a public interest in learning about hazardous situations. I wonder if there might not be some protections from the DMCA under various whistleblower laws? Of course, whistleblowers are usually internal employees rather than outsiders. Might be an interesting concept however.
1) sell durable printer
2) sell cartridges for it
3) continue to sell cartridges for it
4) yep - more cartridges
5) profit
Seems some company could figure out that making a quality printer will keep those ink customers coming back.
I'm still using my HPLJ-4L which I bought in 1995. At the time, it was the cheapest of the bottom end HP printers around - maybe $400 or something like that. But I've dutifully bought about 2 carts a year since then for it. Truth is, I've been wishing it would die - 4ppm is so slow, but it shows no signs of giving up the ghost and till it does, I have many better uses for my money.
I wouldn't accept a short lived printer. In fact, I've only had 3 home printers in my entire life: a 9pin DMP for my CoCo: lasted forever; a Deskjet 500 (1991-1995) still working fine in 95, I just sold it to help buy the laser; my 4l (1995-present). I bought plenty of ink for all these, and HP has been getting my business for a dozen years. But when I go to OfficeMax and look at the bottom end HP laserjets now - jeez - the plastic is flimsy, the pieces don't fit together, it looks like crap. When the 4L does finally die, I'll get some used business class machine cause the consumer stuff sure isn't what it was the last time I bought a printer.
Maybe I am too stupid to use Office but I never received a manual and the Computer support people were half a state away (large state office). I don't know, and I'm not going to research either, but I don't think recovered files director will help me when I accidentally close something I shouldn't. All I'm saying is that autosave protects people from making mistakes. Everyone makes them, the notion that they will ought to be built into a program.
A weird thing happened to me on Wednessday - OOo suddenly decided to take upwards of 5 minutes to load up - on my linux system. Very mysterious. I put a second hard-drive in and did a fresh install which solved that issue, but now my hostname keeps getting reset from its default to some name related to the network I connect to. This screws up my printer but I'm fine if I manually reset the hostname back to the original setting and restart printer deamon. I'm not even sure where to begin searching for help solving these issues. Any suggestions? If a computer I connect to has this new service pack, could that effect my linux system? Oh, and when I shut down, if I didn't manually change the hostname back, canna (for Japanese input) fails to close with a message that it is owned by another machine. I'm mystified!
For one reason: autosave. OOo autosaves at an interval you pick. I will never lose more than 3 minutes of work.
Office has some goofy recovery system that is supposed to bring back your work if Office crashes. I have lost many hours of work when this has failed, or I have accidently properly closed a file without saving (e.g., a billion dialogs suddenly come up and I madly close them all, including the document I'm working on). Yeah - that example is my fault, but the software should allow for user error. If I do the same thing in OOo, I have to retype a paragraph: "Shucks" In Office, it's a 15 minute swearing session.
Some people have commented on how good it would be if there were other writers working on Star Trek. One writer I would love to see involved either in Star Trek, or in adaptations of his own works, is Ian M. Banks. His "Culture" books are witty, entertaining, meaningful... the kind you read till 4 in the morning. He could make Star Trek good.
Real world example of how a stupid windows theme is good:
I just opened up a new office with a friend of mine. Not one bit of MS anywhere in our office - it's all Linux and open source. Getting to the point - my partner can use a computer for all the necessary office tasks, but she is only a user. She is not even remotely computer savy - installing a windows program would be a nightmare for her!
Anyway, I set up her account to use the Windows XP look-a-like theme for KDE - Fischer Price colors and all. When I showed it to her, she barely raised an eyebrow. The only questions she has asked so far are about changing wallpaper and enabling email notification sounds (and she also wanted to know if Evolution would put little smiley icons in her email like AOL's software). Other than that, she just plugs away.
I wouldn't be caught dead with an XP look-a-like on my desktop, but they serve a purpose. Three years from now, my partner will have lost all recollection of how things work in windows - until then, the windows theme helps gloss over some of the differences.
From one of the articles: "Faulkes is currently trying to persuade time-pressed teachers - who are more reluctant than he envisaged - to get involved with the project."
Reluctant teachers are the types who would keep school dull and disconnected from the real world. It is amazing how, even in adulthood, I find myself going back and actually learning things I was supposed to have learned in school. It always comes in the context of a project I may get involved with. Way back in school, when that bit of knowledge was disconnected from any real world application, I found it hard to keep my focus. When that bit of knowledge relates to my life, I find it extremely fascinating.
In the face of such an interesting activity, "reluctant teachers" should be summarily fired.
Law - the original open source system
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Be forwarned, IAAL. However, I am not associated with either company.
While the law itself is open and available to everyone free of charge, its analysis does cost money. This is similar to the situation with various linux distributions. The OS is free, but if you want expert help, you have to hire someone unless you are an expert yourself.
What you get with Westlaw (I'm most familiar with it) and Lexis (I presume) is a very powerful search engine, coupled with analysis generated by those companies. By looking in the free sources published by the government, one can access the law (statutes, cases, etc). For statutes, Westlaw provides not just the text of the law, it also provides a short synopsis of most cases which have interpreted that law. West does a similar thing with case law and organizes its headnote information by "key number". All of that analysis speeds up research - but it is generated by someone who works for the companies - not for the government.
The point is, Westlaw etc. are merely adding value to something that is freely available to make it more useable. That's what any number of open source software companies do - just in a different context.
Think how amazing it would be to have perfect photographic memory. You could learn all languages and be the world's expert in all academic subjects.
I'm not sure. This would be like having access to a great reference library but it wouldn't amount to understanding. For example, you might be able to store a text on speaking Spanish, but to use the information it contains, you would have to understand it first. In order to get the Spanish grammar info into your thinking brain, you are going to have to read it, study it, and learn it.
In order to have fast understanding/learning/etc., there would have to be some black box which changes the stored information, into "understanding", and then feeds that to your brain. Otherwise, it's nothing more than a fancy encyclodedia.
The application is only 400k in size, but many users will notice that the download is over 20MB. This is because Locutus relies on Microsoft's.NET framework, and if a user doesn't have.NET they will automatically download a version of the installer that does.
AOL is seeking advice from the RIAA in an apparent attempt to stem the losses believed to be due to rapant downloading off the net.
MICR - Magnetic Toner (for printing checks)
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You can buy magnetic toner cartridges for laser printers - this is the same toner used to print account numbers on checks (MICR = magnetic ink character recognition). Does anyone know if this type of magnetic ink would work for circuits?
If it would, an open source CPU could be as available as any other picture.
Whether its Mac, Windows, Gnome or KDE, most people recognize the programs they use by icon. Would you really rather see a blob of text on your desktop/taskbar/panel/whatever? These icons are nouns - just add some adjectives and verbs and your good to go!;-)
Hang in there, I gave up TV 12 years ago. At first it was hard. As you already know though, when you give up TV, you fill your days with real activities that are actually stimulating. You will know that you are completely free when you end up at a friend's house, the TV is on, and you can hardly sit through one show because it is so boring and stupid and interrupted every 7 minutes by the downright annoying. At this point, I couldn't go back even if I had a desire to.
The only thing I ever missed was Star Trek. But Star Trek without commercials is exceptionally good - I'm up to 1991 in the TNG DVDs (and DS9 starts coming out soon).;-)
I just put together a computer this weekend. It's for my business so it's capabilities won't turn any heads, but it turns out a lot of it was made in China:
Case motherboard (MSI KT3Ultra2) video card (Chaintech - nVIDIA type w/32mb) LCD flat panel monitor (Mag 565)
I'm not pulling out the CDRW to see where it came from - WD HDD is from Malaysia.
My guess is that a lot of the stuff in any computer comes from China. Perhaps the bigger idea behind the Dragon, is to get experience actually manufacturing the CPU. Plainly, China has experience manufacturing everything else.
Maybe I'm the only one, but I like alt-tabbing between applications. In my last job, I found it a never ending annoyance to not be able to alt-tab between my email and calendar because Outlook is a single program (e.g., you're looking at your 25th email in the inbox, switch to calendar to see if you're available on the date of some lame meeting, remember you forgot to check the time, go back to inbox - scroll down through the junk, find that email again, go back to calendar, it's automatically returned to today's date so you have select the relevent date again, and finally you can check - it's a Royal Pain!)
At home, I found Evolution to be similarly annoying.
Even if one organization makes a product like this, they should be able to make it act as several components rather than a single program. Then it's just a flash back and forth.
Click the "I4U" link above. The new Zaurus with a 640x480 screen and qwerty keyboard is actually listed _above_ the phone device being discussed here. Perhaps there is a cell phone module it?
For a little fun with psychics etc.:
http://www.randi.org/
"The James Randi Educational Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1996. Its aim is to promote critical thinking by reaching out to the public and media with reliable information about paranormal and supernatural ideas so widespread in our society today"
Slashdot Mirror
Comcast? They just bought out AT&T cable in my area. All of a sudden, I'm getting 6 spams a day on an email account that got 2 in the prior year. Conspiracy??
They like being slasdotted!. From a comment posted after the article (how's that for RTFAing?):
... a link to this topic was posted on slashdot ... so, me may have a bit of a server overhaul ...
... when you make front page on your 3 most visited sites *slashdot, xboxhacker, xbox-scene* ... it puts a warm fuzzy feeling in your heart =p
guys
(I didn't think this was slashdot worthy, but hey
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I don't like p00!
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Yes - the discoverers should reveal the information. If a bank with a hole in their vault refuses to fix the problem, that bank endangers the assets of its depositors. By widely publicizing the hole, the bank will (probably) do something and even if they don't, their customers will. Losing all your clients is a great motivator to fix a problem.
And it seems this card system controls more important things than just money - physical access. Wouldn't it be better for an individual to know that the locks suck, and take appropriate precautions, than to trust the system and end up assaulted?
Whistleblowers have long had protections under the law because there is a public interest in learning about hazardous situations. I wonder if there might not be some protections from the DMCA under various whistleblower laws? Of course, whistleblowers are usually internal employees rather than outsiders. Might be an interesting concept however.
If I recall correctly, GSV=General Service Vehicle.
Excellent reference to Ian M. Banks Culture series. It is perhaps some of the very best sci-fi around. A couple reviews.
Here's a business model:
1) sell durable printer
2) sell cartridges for it
3) continue to sell cartridges for it
4) yep - more cartridges
5) profit
Seems some company could figure out that making a quality printer will keep those ink customers coming back.
I'm still using my HPLJ-4L which I bought in 1995. At the time, it was the cheapest of the bottom end HP printers around - maybe $400 or something like that. But I've dutifully bought about 2 carts a year since then for it. Truth is, I've been wishing it would die - 4ppm is so slow, but it shows no signs of giving up the ghost and till it does, I have many better uses for my money.
I wouldn't accept a short lived printer. In fact, I've only had 3 home printers in my entire life: a 9pin DMP for my CoCo: lasted forever; a Deskjet 500 (1991-1995) still working fine in 95, I just sold it to help buy the laser; my 4l (1995-present). I bought plenty of ink for all these, and HP has been getting my business for a dozen years. But when I go to OfficeMax and look at the bottom end HP laserjets now - jeez - the plastic is flimsy, the pieces don't fit together, it looks like crap. When the 4L does finally die, I'll get some used business class machine cause the consumer stuff sure isn't what it was the last time I bought a printer.
Maybe I am too stupid to use Office but I never received a manual and the Computer support people were half a state away (large state office). I don't know, and I'm not going to research either, but I don't think recovered files director will help me when I accidentally close something I shouldn't. All I'm saying is that autosave protects people from making mistakes. Everyone makes them, the notion that they will ought to be built into a program.
A weird thing happened to me on Wednessday - OOo suddenly decided to take upwards of 5 minutes to load up - on my linux system. Very mysterious. I put a second hard-drive in and did a fresh install which solved that issue, but now my hostname keeps getting reset from its default to some name related to the network I connect to. This screws up my printer but I'm fine if I manually reset the hostname back to the original setting and restart printer deamon. I'm not even sure where to begin searching for help solving these issues. Any suggestions? If a computer I connect to has this new service pack, could that effect my linux system? Oh, and when I shut down, if I didn't manually change the hostname back, canna (for Japanese input) fails to close with a message that it is owned by another machine. I'm mystified!
For one reason: autosave. OOo autosaves at an interval you pick. I will never lose more than 3 minutes of work.
Office has some goofy recovery system that is supposed to bring back your work if Office crashes. I have lost many hours of work when this has failed, or I have accidently properly closed a file without saving (e.g., a billion dialogs suddenly come up and I madly close them all, including the document I'm working on). Yeah - that example is my fault, but the software should allow for user error. If I do the same thing in OOo, I have to retype a paragraph: "Shucks" In Office, it's a 15 minute swearing session.
No game was ever better than Liesure Suit Larry: EGA pr0n with a plot! If only I had a 5.25" drive, I think I still have the disks for LSL3.
Some people have commented on how good it would be if there were other writers working on Star Trek. One writer I would love to see involved either in Star Trek, or in adaptations of his own works, is Ian M. Banks. His "Culture" books are witty, entertaining, meaningful ... the kind you read till 4 in the morning. He could make Star Trek good.
Real world example of how a stupid windows theme is good:
I just opened up a new office with a friend of mine. Not one bit of MS anywhere in our office - it's all Linux and open source. Getting to the point - my partner can use a computer for all the necessary office tasks, but she is only a user. She is not even remotely computer savy - installing a windows program would be a nightmare for her!
Anyway, I set up her account to use the Windows XP look-a-like theme for KDE - Fischer Price colors and all. When I showed it to her, she barely raised an eyebrow. The only questions she has asked so far are about changing wallpaper and enabling email notification sounds (and she also wanted to know if Evolution would put little smiley icons in her email like AOL's software). Other than that, she just plugs away.
I wouldn't be caught dead with an XP look-a-like on my desktop, but they serve a purpose. Three years from now, my partner will have lost all recollection of how things work in windows - until then, the windows theme helps gloss over some of the differences.
From one of the articles:
"Faulkes is currently trying to persuade time-pressed teachers - who are more reluctant than he envisaged - to get involved with the project."
Reluctant teachers are the types who would keep school dull and disconnected from the real world. It is amazing how, even in adulthood, I find myself going back and actually learning things I was supposed to have learned in school. It always comes in the context of a project I may get involved with. Way back in school, when that bit of knowledge was disconnected from any real world application, I found it hard to keep my focus. When that bit of knowledge relates to my life, I find it extremely fascinating.
In the face of such an interesting activity, "reluctant teachers" should be summarily fired.
Be forwarned, IAAL. However, I am not associated with either company.
While the law itself is open and available to everyone free of charge, its analysis does cost money. This is similar to the situation with various linux distributions. The OS is free, but if you want expert help, you have to hire someone unless you are an expert yourself.
Free sources of law in Washington State: Washington State Cases, Laws, Regs, etc Laws, Regs, etc.. These are even searchable.What you get with Westlaw (I'm most familiar with it) and Lexis (I presume) is a very powerful search engine, coupled with analysis generated by those companies. By looking in the free sources published by the government, one can access the law (statutes, cases, etc). For statutes, Westlaw provides not just the text of the law, it also provides a short synopsis of most cases which have interpreted that law. West does a similar thing with case law and organizes its headnote information by "key number". All of that analysis speeds up research - but it is generated by someone who works for the companies - not for the government.
The point is, Westlaw etc. are merely adding value to something that is freely available to make it more useable. That's what any number of open source software companies do - just in a different context.
Think how amazing it would be to have perfect photographic memory. You could learn all languages and be the world's expert in all academic subjects.
I'm not sure. This would be like having access to a great reference library but it wouldn't amount to understanding. For example, you might be able to store a text on speaking Spanish, but to use the information it contains, you would have to understand it first. In order to get the Spanish grammar info into your thinking brain, you are going to have to read it, study it, and learn it.
In order to have fast understanding/learning/etc., there would have to be some black box which changes the stored information, into "understanding", and then feeds that to your brain. Otherwise, it's nothing more than a fancy encyclodedia.
The application is only 400k in size, but many users will notice that the download is over 20MB. This is because Locutus relies on Microsoft's .NET framework, and if a user doesn't have .NET they will automatically download a version of the installer that does.
Go figure - Locutus only works with Windows.
AOL is seeking advice from the RIAA in an apparent attempt to stem the losses believed to be due to rapant downloading off the net.
You can buy magnetic toner cartridges for laser printers - this is the same toner used to print account numbers on checks (MICR = magnetic ink character recognition). Does anyone know if this type of magnetic ink would work for circuits? If it would, an open source CPU could be as available as any other picture.
A favorite saying: no good deed goes unpunished
Whether its Mac, Windows, Gnome or KDE, most people recognize the programs they use by icon. Would you really rather see a blob of text on your desktop/taskbar/panel/whatever? These icons are nouns - just add some adjectives and verbs and your good to go! ;-)
Hang in there, I gave up TV 12 years ago. At first it was hard. As you already know though, when you give up TV, you fill your days with real activities that are actually stimulating. You will know that you are completely free when you end up at a friend's house, the TV is on, and you can hardly sit through one show because it is so boring and stupid and interrupted every 7 minutes by the downright annoying. At this point, I couldn't go back even if I had a desire to.
;-)
The only thing I ever missed was Star Trek. But Star Trek without commercials is exceptionally good - I'm up to 1991 in the TNG DVDs (and DS9 starts coming out soon).
I just put together a computer this weekend. It's for my business so it's capabilities won't turn any heads, but it turns out a lot of it was made in China:
Case
motherboard (MSI KT3Ultra2)
video card (Chaintech - nVIDIA type w/32mb)
LCD flat panel monitor (Mag 565)
I'm not pulling out the CDRW to see where it came from - WD HDD is from Malaysia.
My guess is that a lot of the stuff in any computer comes from China. Perhaps the bigger idea behind the Dragon, is to get experience actually manufacturing the CPU. Plainly, China has experience manufacturing everything else.
Actually, Evolution does hold your place in email and calendar. I still like to between programs than mouse click
Maybe I'm the only one, but I like alt-tabbing between applications. In my last job, I found it a never ending annoyance to not be able to alt-tab between my email and calendar because Outlook is a single program (e.g., you're looking at your 25th email in the inbox, switch to calendar to see if you're available on the date of some lame meeting, remember you forgot to check the time, go back to inbox - scroll down through the junk, find that email again, go back to calendar, it's automatically returned to today's date so you have select the relevent date again, and finally you can check - it's a Royal Pain!) At home, I found Evolution to be similarly annoying. Even if one organization makes a product like this, they should be able to make it act as several components rather than a single program. Then it's just a flash back and forth.
Click the "I4U" link above. The new Zaurus with a 640x480 screen and qwerty keyboard is actually listed _above_ the phone device being discussed here. Perhaps there is a cell phone module it?
For a little fun with psychics etc.: http://www.randi.org/ "The James Randi Educational Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1996. Its aim is to promote critical thinking by reaching out to the public and media with reliable information about paranormal and supernatural ideas so widespread in our society today"