What about the time taken to read comments on this Slashdot article? That should be deductible too, as people are researching the best ways to file their return.:-)
I can boot a full Linux off a single CD, but that includes a whole lot of GUI stuff which wouldn't be needed on a server. But even with that GUI stuff, you still have 300MB of free space, which is approximately 30 times more space than many web sites take up.
Or better yet, only register a new one when the NYTimes actually hits the site. That way, when their employees scour the site, they continuously see new hits and can never remove them all.:-D
Even if it's enabled by default, users still have to learn how to use keys. Otherwise the company might as well issue every user "secure" keys and just not tell everyone that they can decrypt anything encrypted to those keys.
Butlers have a big advantage over robots. When you send them out on an errand, they don't typically get kidnapped and sold to pawn stores.
Personally I'm waiting until robots start defending themselves against this sort of thing. Otherwise there's no point sending one on an errand, which I would have expected to be a primary use case (other than cleaning the house, which these things are also incapable of.)
Whereas I do hate Office intensely, Office 2003 does support XML spreadsheet files, which are just as easily editable from scripts as OOo's, or perhaps easier since they don't use a zip file.
I like it for that too. At one point I was managing my accounts using an OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet, and I had a Perl script which was able to extract the totals from each sheet for easy usage from the terminal.:-)
As far as sending raw text files (or anything else which has an association), Bluetooth works pretty well. And an alternative to using an SD card writer is buying Card Export II and using the Palm itself as an SD card writer.:-)
If I load a page through my Firefox, all the advertisements get blocked. So they surely aren't getting any revenue from my downloading of the entire HTML.
Meanwhile, if I load the story page via the RSS reader in Thunderbird, I can't block the ads.:-)
This seems like a fair method of reducing the amount of throughput... only permitting a certain number of requests per hour per user, or whatever time period one wishes.
I'm pretty sure there are other ways of going about it, though.
1. Send a header which specifies when the feed was last downloaded from this location. If I downloaded the feed an hour ago, I don't need the feed to contain articles which occurred half a day ago.
2. Include less articles in the RSS.
3. Push the RSS updates to users, using XMPP or similar, as sites like PubSub.com are starting to do.
But realistically, what would you want more: (a) someone fetching 1kb of RSS once every 10 minutes, or (b) someone fetching 10-50kb of HTML and assorted crap once every 10 minutes? It seems to me that for every RSS download a user makes, they're actually saving you bandwidth!
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A script which deletes all traces of everything other than tax stuff is relatively easy to construct. :-)
The cost will indeed be different... the tax agent is less than half the cost of Windows.
What about the time taken to read comments on this Slashdot article? That should be deductible too, as people are researching the best ways to file their return. :-)
Watching music TV is stealing too, if you don't sit through the ads.
I can boot a full Linux off a single CD, but that includes a whole lot of GUI stuff which wouldn't be needed on a server. But even with that GUI stuff, you still have 300MB of free space, which is approximately 30 times more space than many web sites take up.
So... easy.
Or better yet, only register a new one when the NYTimes actually hits the site. That way, when their employees scour the site, they continuously see new hits and can never remove them all. :-D
Surely in America, where it's something like $60 for a gigabyte of SD flash memory, this is already practical.
Windows already has built-in theming. I change my Windows theme all the time, and expect all other applications to use the theme I chose.
Firefox can do this. All Windows applications can do this. But Trillian cannot.
They need to learn how to use the eye candy which is already present in the OS.
It would be good to see something like this in Jabber as well, if it really works as described...
Even if it's enabled by default, users still have to learn how to use keys. Otherwise the company might as well issue every user "secure" keys and just not tell everyone that they can decrypt anything encrypted to those keys.
Butlers have a big advantage over robots. When you send them out on an errand, they don't typically get kidnapped and sold to pawn stores.
Personally I'm waiting until robots start defending themselves against this sort of thing. Otherwise there's no point sending one on an errand, which I would have expected to be a primary use case (other than cleaning the house, which these things are also incapable of.)
Subversion can't access CVS repositories, which is probably important for fools who still use CVS.
Doesn't a CPU emulator also implement the specification of the CPU?
Better yet, have the spyware "record" a Fed sending illegal information to you...
The lights themselves might be back on, but I think the lights just went out on his web server.
Whereas I do hate Office intensely, Office 2003 does support XML spreadsheet files, which are just as easily editable from scripts as OOo's, or perhaps easier since they don't use a zip file.
PDF can be edited too... but it's a common misconception that it can't.
I like it for that too. At one point I was managing my accounts using an OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet, and I had a Perl script which was able to extract the totals from each sheet for easy usage from the terminal. :-)
Many would argue that wrapping an encoded binary file with XML tags doesn't make it XML.
As far as sending raw text files (or anything else which has an association), Bluetooth works pretty well. And an alternative to using an SD card writer is buying Card Export II and using the Palm itself as an SD card writer. :-)
Actually, there are more users on MSN than AIM now. (at least one reference.) I'm sure Slashdot covered the story too.
Oh yeah, and XMPP Rocks. :-)
No, but it has Esperanto, which is just as useful!
Disclaimer: I actually like Esperanto.
If I load a page through my Firefox, all the advertisements get blocked. So they surely aren't getting any revenue from my downloading of the entire HTML.
Meanwhile, if I load the story page via the RSS reader in Thunderbird, I can't block the ads. :-)
So clearly it can work both ways.
This seems like a fair method of reducing the amount of throughput... only permitting a certain number of requests per hour per user, or whatever time period one wishes.
I'm pretty sure there are other ways of going about it, though.
1. Send a header which specifies when the feed was last downloaded from this location. If I downloaded the feed an hour ago, I don't need the feed to contain articles which occurred half a day ago.
2. Include less articles in the RSS.
3. Push the RSS updates to users, using XMPP or similar, as sites like PubSub.com are starting to do.
But realistically, what would you want more: (a) someone fetching 1kb of RSS once every 10 minutes, or (b) someone fetching 10-50kb of HTML and assorted crap once every 10 minutes? It seems to me that for every RSS download a user makes, they're actually saving you bandwidth!
Obviously, Mozilla and GAIM would both need to code support for it themselves, just like everyone else. They are, afterall, applications.