I don't have the figures, but maybe we need to report this as "percentage of mean national monthly income per month". We're constantly told that wage earners in some countries make less per month than US workers (hence the outsourcing we see happening) - which could mean their cost for broadband is actually more expensive for them in relative terms. If a US worker makes 54K a year, or 4500 per month, then $45 of that for broadband might be a bargain if a Korean worker makes 19K a year, or 500 a month, and pays $38 a month.
45/4500 = 1% 38/500 = 7.6% of monthly incomes
Therefore the Korean worker would be allocating more of his/her pay to broadband. As I said, I don't have actual figures - I just think this should be reported in these terms.
Don't know about anyone else, but the allocation of my monthly funds can mean more than the actual amount(especially when the required allocations start to exceed 100% of the income!)
Well, maybe you can't _find_ that particular.mpg or.mp3 file anymore? Some media are ephemeral, and go away after a while (example: http://uk.download.yahoo.com/ne/fu/oa/eurcncs18503 0.mpg ). The Wayback Machine doesn't always have them, either.
The two-color versions as developed by Gyricon Media (A Xerox PARC spin-off) and E-Ink, and their partners, seem to intentionally be kept out of the hands of "hackers" who want to experiment with the materials, and I fear Fujitsu will do the same. If you wanted to play with this kind of display, currently, you'd have to buy a Gyricon sign or a Sony Librie and take it apart; I don't see reference or developer kits anywhere.
Many have pointed out that digital formats can become obsolete - the main thing to remember is that digital data can MORE EASILY be moved to new media, file formats, whatever. So the data doesn't become obsolete, at all (for example, old data on Apple II => csv => Access => MySQL is technoligically trivial).
GEDCOM is a good format to use for the genealogical data, IF you have the time to index it that way in some program and output to GEDCOM. If not, just preserve it for some family member who wants to do the genealogy part.
I can recommend Family Tree for Windows as a reasonably cheap genealogy program, that also supports GEDCOM, and often comes in bundles that include lots of government records that help the genealogist.
As for TIFF/non-TIFF issues... the important part there is to make sure the image is readable, and hopefully readable when you zoom in - so that means the more resolution the better. I don't do genealogy but my wife's family does, and I can't tell you how many times they hold a magnifying glass up to some old picture because they're nosy about what's in it (like - is that the December 1942 issue of Life Magazine ol' Uncle Duffy is holding? That woulda been just after cousin Maybelle was born, ah reckon). So, image quality is important to the historian/genealogist coming behind you.
If you can make changes in the ecomomic situation so that families can afford to have one parent home for a good part of the day, student performance will improve. My good performance in school was in large part due to my parents'stressing that doing my best in school was my "profession" when I was there (note- effort was what was required, not high GPA). They kept up with whether homework and studies were done or not. Recreational activities were allowed as long as time was set aside for homework - being, at the time, intensely interested in some things on TV (like the original Star Trek), I did my schoolwork early to allot my recreation time to the evening - some of my brothers did the reverse. But the parental involvement without over-stressing it was key, and that will only happen reliably of both parents don't have to work like dogs to make ends meet.
Atom is heading for IETF to proceed along the standards track; it is the "standard" for RSS in many ways (don't forget that there are now at least 3 flavors of RSS)
If they (Micro Center or other retailers) would work on and sell a Linux-based Media PC that worked out of the box and sold for under $400, they'd make a lot of money... I thnk a lot of peiple have a PC (I'm _not_ saying "everyone" so let's not start the digital divide discussion) but don't have the tech skills to make it a media PC for the living room. Right now, so-called Media PCs sell at Best Buy and elsewhere for $1200 and up; Linux with less-powerful hardware can do the same thing, so they just need to get the software to the point where it works as a media PC out of the box.
Support the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium: www.calconnect.org
Become an individual member, or get your company / university to join (especially if you are MS or Palm, two companies conspicuously absent).
This group is working on the calendar interoperability issue.. individual calendaring (as, I think, requested by the original poster) is one thing, but to be really effective you need to be able to work with others' calendars too.
we must work to make sure that WE can read the information on our own cards, to ensure accuracy, with a low-cost device owned by US and not some agency (to prevent the trivial programming of reader devices to omit information that agencies don't want us to know they've encoded there). We must not accept any form of encryption of the data that we don't have a key to (encryption is OK to prevent trivial theft of the information, but the owner of the ID card should own (at least a copy of) the decryption key).
The problem was the failure of the people working with it to look at and understand it. Probably no one wanted to work on it, because it wasn't "sexy".
People who write for CIOs and PHBs tend to write as though anything older than five years is at risk of failing.. when in reality, if it has worked for five years straight, hang onto it.
Constant change is the source of more failures than "aging" code, in my experience.
but so is this article - if you're going to report on geek news, something which Slashdot has done well in the past, then you need to report on it _early_ - as in, go to the contest, report that Carl Hayden won over MIT, when it happened. It's not "news" to get this _after_ the Wired magazine is already out in the mail.
Outlook and Exchange have support for RFC2445/iCalendar (I don't shorten it to iCal to avoid confusion with Apple's iCal). Internally they use whatever MS format they use, but they can export, import, and open (double-click on an.ics file, locally or in a browser) iCalendar files. How well it interoperates is yet to be tested well - the C&S consortium is trying to get MS to come to an interop. I do know they participate in some of the mailing lists, like ietf-calsify which is trying to simplify the RFC to get to a good interoperability point.
We should continue this discussion elsewhere - you can either join ietf-calsify (hosted by osafoundation.org I believe), or reach me via e-mail (I trust you can remove the obfuscation here): T*i*m#H#a#r#e AT comcast DAWT net
According to this documentation, the Personal Data Interchange (PDI) part of the SDK supports iCalendar. The description of Palm's Versamail says it can open iCalendar attachements. Once they're opened in Palm OS and added to the calendar, they'd sync to Palm Desktop like anything else.
Like you, I would rather be able to open them on the desktop machine, in Palm Desktop, as you can do with vCalendar files now. I wish all Palm users would start bombarding them with e-mails about this.. iCalendar came out in 1998, surely they could have added support by now!
With 802.11s being discussed by Intel, maybe we'll see (though I doubt it), a populist WiFi: when the 802.11s APs become cheap, people just go around nailing 'em to telephone poles, sitting them in apartment windows, etc. and end up with a self-organizing mesh network not run by the city OR the telco - except for where it connects to the backbone trunks of course... someone somewhere will have to pay for that. Personally, it'd be convenient if that were another small charge on my utilities bill.
I have to re-test to be sure, but from my latest reading PalmOS _will_ open an iCalendar file, there are functions to allow it in the SDK- not sure about whether they're implemented in the e-mail handler on the device (that's what I'd need to look at and test). What gets me is that the Palm Desktop _will_not_ do other than vCalendar, and it doesn't completely support vCalendar at that. I've tried to contact Palm in various ways about this - including filing a bug report; I haven't seen it change though.
please use iCalendar instead (RFC2445) - but other than that, I agree. Other software needs to present calendar information consumable by other programs.
This also includes: your PIM app should install the hooks so that your browser can open an iCalendar (extension.ics, MIME type "text/calendar") file; and javascript implementations in browsers need to allow document.open("text/calendar") so that web pages can create iCalendar objects "on the fly".
If you're aggravated about your calendaring these days - join or get your organization to join the Calendaring & Scheduling Consortium which is a group trying to push calendar interoperability forward. They're particularly in need of commercial organizations and individuals - they have quite a few software vendors and universities now.
"Dinosaurs" can play too. IBM has an implementation on z/OS that ties in with their LDAP implementation, their DCE implementations, etc. and it all connects with their "native' Resource Access Control Facility (or as it's now supposed to be known, Security Server). I've seen papers in fact where the LDAP/Kerberos combination can play nice with Active Directory should your organization's policies require it.
The DeathStar was broken up into little pieces, but apparently the dark side of the Force is bringing them back together.
Admiral Vonage and General Skype will lead the rebel alliance
Help us, Obi-For-Wan-Wan, you're our only hope!
I am going to call my Senators and suggest that an amendment to this bill be added that requires that IF the bill is implemented, all the machine readable information be readable by me, at home, in plain text, with a maximum purchase price of $20 for necessary technology if I have to buy it. Technologically there are many ways to do it, and I'm not going to enumerate them, but the cost needs to be non-prohibitive and if it's encrypted for security/privacy reasons I need to be able to decrypt it myself.
If we have to have this stuff on our ID cards, then we should have the right to independently review the information on there.
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I don't have the figures, but maybe we need to report this as "percentage of mean national monthly income per month". We're constantly told that wage earners in some countries make less per month than US workers (hence the outsourcing we see happening) - which could mean their cost for broadband is actually more expensive for them in relative terms. If a US worker makes 54K a year, or 4500 per month, then $45 of that for broadband might be a bargain if a Korean worker makes 19K a year, or 500 a month, and pays $38 a month. 45/4500 = 1% 38/500 = 7.6% of monthly incomes Therefore the Korean worker would be allocating more of his/her pay to broadband. As I said, I don't have actual figures - I just think this should be reported in these terms. Don't know about anyone else, but the allocation of my monthly funds can mean more than the actual amount(especially when the required allocations start to exceed 100% of the income!)
Well, maybe you can't _find_ that particular .mpg or .mp3 file anymore? Some media are ephemeral, and go away after a while (example: http://uk.download.yahoo.com/ne/fu/oa/eurcncs18503 0.mpg ). The Wayback Machine doesn't always have them, either.
The two-color versions as developed by Gyricon Media (A Xerox PARC spin-off) and E-Ink, and their partners, seem to intentionally be kept out of the hands of "hackers" who want to experiment with the materials, and I fear Fujitsu will do the same. If you wanted to play with this kind of display, currently, you'd have to buy a Gyricon sign or a Sony Librie and take it apart; I don't see reference or developer kits anywhere.
Many have pointed out that digital formats can become obsolete - the main thing to remember is that digital data can MORE EASILY be moved to new media, file formats, whatever. So the data doesn't become obsolete, at all (for example, old data on Apple II => csv => Access => MySQL is technoligically trivial). GEDCOM is a good format to use for the genealogical data, IF you have the time to index it that way in some program and output to GEDCOM. If not, just preserve it for some family member who wants to do the genealogy part. I can recommend Family Tree for Windows as a reasonably cheap genealogy program, that also supports GEDCOM, and often comes in bundles that include lots of government records that help the genealogist. As for TIFF/non-TIFF issues... the important part there is to make sure the image is readable, and hopefully readable when you zoom in - so that means the more resolution the better. I don't do genealogy but my wife's family does, and I can't tell you how many times they hold a magnifying glass up to some old picture because they're nosy about what's in it (like - is that the December 1942 issue of Life Magazine ol' Uncle Duffy is holding? That woulda been just after cousin Maybelle was born, ah reckon). So, image quality is important to the historian/genealogist coming behind you.
If you can make changes in the ecomomic situation so that families can afford to have one parent home for a good part of the day, student performance will improve. My good performance in school was in large part due to my parents'stressing that doing my best in school was my "profession" when I was there (note- effort was what was required, not high GPA). They kept up with whether homework and studies were done or not. Recreational activities were allowed as long as time was set aside for homework - being, at the time, intensely interested in some things on TV (like the original Star Trek), I did my schoolwork early to allot my recreation time to the evening - some of my brothers did the reverse. But the parental involvement without over-stressing it was key, and that will only happen reliably of both parents don't have to work like dogs to make ends meet.
"You know, you've gotta watch it with those circular saws," Tom said off-handedly.
Atom is heading for IETF to proceed along the standards track; it is the "standard" for RSS in many ways (don't forget that there are now at least 3 flavors of RSS)
"Have another, sir?" says the barkeep "I think not" says Descartes, and disappears
If they (Micro Center or other retailers) would work on and sell a Linux-based Media PC that worked out of the box and sold for under $400, they'd make a lot of money... I thnk a lot of peiple have a PC (I'm _not_ saying "everyone" so let's not start the digital divide discussion) but don't have the tech skills to make it a media PC for the living room. Right now, so-called Media PCs sell at Best Buy and elsewhere for $1200 and up; Linux with less-powerful hardware can do the same thing, so they just need to get the software to the point where it works as a media PC out of the box.
Support the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium: www.calconnect.org
Become an individual member, or get your company / university to join (especially if you are MS or Palm, two companies conspicuously absent).
This group is working on the calendar interoperability issue.. individual calendaring (as, I think, requested by the original poster) is one thing, but to be really effective you need to be able to work with others' calendars too.
will we then, end up with ID cards that contain items only our supposed guardians can read?
we must work to make sure that WE can read the information on our own cards, to ensure accuracy, with a low-cost device owned by US and not some agency (to prevent the trivial programming of reader devices to omit information that agencies don't want us to know they've encoded there). We must not accept any form of encryption of the data that we don't have a key to (encryption is OK to prevent trivial theft of the information, but the owner of the ID card should own (at least a copy of) the decryption key).
The problem was the failure of the people working with it to look at and understand it. Probably no one wanted to work on it, because it wasn't "sexy". People who write for CIOs and PHBs tend to write as though anything older than five years is at risk of failing.. when in reality, if it has worked for five years straight, hang onto it. Constant change is the source of more failures than "aging" code, in my experience.
That's "Tough Actin'" Tinactin (TM) you insensitive clod. John Madden is gonna run the Annexation of Puerto Rico on you.
but so is this article - if you're going to report on geek news, something which Slashdot has done well in the past, then you need to report on it _early_ - as in, go to the contest, report that Carl Hayden won over MIT, when it happened. It's not "news" to get this _after_ the Wired magazine is already out in the mail.
Outlook and Exchange have support for RFC2445/iCalendar (I don't shorten it to iCal to avoid confusion with Apple's iCal). Internally they use whatever MS format they use, but they can export, import, and open (double-click on an .ics file, locally or in a browser) iCalendar files. How well it interoperates is yet to be tested well - the C&S consortium is trying to get MS to come to an interop. I do know they participate in some of the mailing lists, like ietf-calsify which is trying to simplify the RFC to get to a good interoperability point.
We should continue this discussion elsewhere - you can either join ietf-calsify (hosted by osafoundation.org I believe), or reach me via e-mail (I trust you can remove the obfuscation here): T*i*m#H#a#r#e AT comcast DAWT net
According to this documentation, the Personal Data Interchange (PDI) part of the SDK supports iCalendar. The description of Palm's Versamail says it can open iCalendar attachements. Once they're opened in Palm OS and added to the calendar, they'd sync to Palm Desktop like anything else. Like you, I would rather be able to open them on the desktop machine, in Palm Desktop, as you can do with vCalendar files now. I wish all Palm users would start bombarding them with e-mails about this.. iCalendar came out in 1998, surely they could have added support by now!
With 802.11s being discussed by Intel, maybe we'll see (though I doubt it), a populist WiFi: when the 802.11s APs become cheap, people just go around nailing 'em to telephone poles, sitting them in apartment windows, etc. and end up with a self-organizing mesh network not run by the city OR the telco - except for where it connects to the backbone trunks of course... someone somewhere will have to pay for that. Personally, it'd be convenient if that were another small charge on my utilities bill.
I have to re-test to be sure, but from my latest reading PalmOS _will_ open an iCalendar file, there are functions to allow it in the SDK- not sure about whether they're implemented in the e-mail handler on the device (that's what I'd need to look at and test). What gets me is that the Palm Desktop _will_not_ do other than vCalendar, and it doesn't completely support vCalendar at that. I've tried to contact Palm in various ways about this - including filing a bug report; I haven't seen it change though.
please use iCalendar instead (RFC2445) - but other than that, I agree. Other software needs to present calendar information consumable by other programs. This also includes: your PIM app should install the hooks so that your browser can open an iCalendar (extension .ics, MIME type "text/calendar") file; and javascript implementations in browsers need to allow document.open("text/calendar") so that web pages can create iCalendar objects "on the fly".
If you're aggravated about your calendaring these days - join or get your organization to join the Calendaring & Scheduling Consortium which is a group trying to push calendar interoperability forward. They're particularly in need of commercial organizations and individuals - they have quite a few software vendors and universities now.
No way, buddy, how old are you? 40? Old school is an IBM 1410, and Autocoder.
"Dinosaurs" can play too. IBM has an implementation on z/OS that ties in with their LDAP implementation, their DCE implementations, etc. and it all connects with their "native' Resource Access Control Facility (or as it's now supposed to be known, Security Server). I've seen papers in fact where the LDAP/Kerberos combination can play nice with Active Directory should your organization's policies require it.
The DeathStar was broken up into little pieces, but apparently the dark side of the Force is bringing them back together. Admiral Vonage and General Skype will lead the rebel alliance Help us, Obi-For-Wan-Wan, you're our only hope!
I am going to call my Senators and suggest that an amendment to this bill be added that requires that IF the bill is implemented, all the machine readable information be readable by me, at home, in plain text, with a maximum purchase price of $20 for necessary technology if I have to buy it. Technologically there are many ways to do it, and I'm not going to enumerate them, but the cost needs to be non-prohibitive and if it's encrypted for security/privacy reasons I need to be able to decrypt it myself. If we have to have this stuff on our ID cards, then we should have the right to independently review the information on there.
In the previous subject line I put the contraction "it's" when obviously I meant the possesive "its".