96,000 people tried out the line last weekend during its debut!
Uh, that's because it was free. Long term it will fail. The line is one of the dumbest ones to do. If they wanted to get people to use it they should have gone down 35W South or 394 or something, ie. where people actually commute from.
Well if our previous "enlightened" govenor and democrat controlled legislature hadn't wasted $750M+ on light rail (for a line that helps virtually nobody) then maybe there would have been money to do it "right".
This looks great! My big gripe? Why does everybody have FM receivers but no AM? I listen to a lot of talk radio on AM, but at times want my MP3 player (Archos). Currently I have to bring 2 different devices along. I don't understand why "ancient" technology like AM has to be exluded.
My company does it all the time. Right now I am on a project displacing an Avaya PBX w/ a Cisco IP system. All new phones (the old ones will not work), and no analog phones or faxes. If you use the right technologies, such as analog->IP gateways, you do not need anything. A large part of our business is PBX displacement, and normal businesses have no problem displacing everything.
Yeah, and you can use Cisco ATA's to do the same thing. However, the OP was talking about "normal" phones w/ a traditional PBX which generally is not doable. Plus, normal phones do not have the features that a digital phone would have, therefore businesses (we're not talking home users here) want the digital phones. Yes, home users will want the conventional phones as they generally do not want to spend $500/phone, but for a normal business this is no big deal.
Have you ever seen a "real" PBX that doesn't use proprietary phones? You can't use Nortel phones on an Avaya PBX. Phone costs are built into the cost of switching PBXs. The only places that use "classic" (ie. analog) phones are the small companies. Every real PBX has it's own digital phones.
Of course, with a Mac, you don't even need the crossover cable, it will realize that it's host to host and do it for you, much like any decent switch. This is _much_ easier for smallish networks or ad hoc connections.
Same thing happened to me and my company a couple years ago (yes, after the dot bomb). We had a promising product (actually a service), but didn't have the funding. We had been a successful small local ISP for 5 years but had done a lot of contract programming too. We knew we had something good going, but couldn't find private financing (2001), so we started talking to a couple complementary companies who were big enough to fund this. We leveraged ourselves quite a bit to get a proof of concept up and running and were within a couple weeks of shutting the doors before one of the companies pulled the trigger and bought us.
Things have worked out great. Everybody is still on board and the product is almost making money (it isn't budgeted to make money until next year so we're ahead of the game), so everybody is happy all around.
It sounds like you've done this already, but for others, pay for the lawyer! We spent quite a bit of money to make sure we had a good lawyer look over the contracts and such. We knew a couple of the higher ups at the buying company, but you can never trust them entirely business wise.
You should also look at getting employment contracts for 2-3 years to ensure that you are still around for a while.
We didn't get rich, but we still have jobs and are still doing the stuff we want to do. All in all, it's worked out great for us. YMMV.
The problem with this is that spam for one person is not spam for another. That's the beauty of Bayes. If you are a proctologist, for example, you probably get a lot of legitimate email with the word penis in it. If you are a plastic surgeon, you may get legitimate email that discusses body part enlargement. There are hundreds of examples. The beauty of Bayes is that you can make it work for you and not be all encompassing.
The SpamAssassin people have talked about this in the past. They have a corpus of spam that they use to test rules and people have asked to download it to seed their own Bayes, but the SA people don't want to do that (a good thing) as Bayes is a personal thing.
What you are proposing will work for general spam checking, but not for Bayes, which is what the original poster asked about. In reality, it's hard to test Bayes in a general case. All I know is that it's worked wonders for me (using SA).
Correct, that's why you take 10 mins and setup a separate account that is used only for PayPal. Get a no minimum balance account and plop $20 in there or something. Transfer funds in as you need to buy something, transfer out to your "real" account as people pay in. I use it that way with eBay all the time, the most I can have frozen at any given time is about $20. I don't have a credit card associated with them (that could be because I signed up w/ them when they were still 'x.com') or anything that can adversely affect me. I know at my bank I can setup automatic sweeps that if a balance gets to a certain level in an account I can have it automatically sweep it to another account.
I'm not saying that PayPal is the be all end all by any means, but for better or worse, it's the best out there. Other services such as c2it don't require you to tie an account to anything, but they charge something like $10 per transaction. PayPal offers the best overall value for small payments.
I think 10.3 comes with a new feature called "Mail Folders". The description I read says: "Mail folders now allow you to store old email that you wish to keep so that it no longer clutters up your mailbox." *whew* Now you'll be able to split them up! Thankfully they brought this up now!
Come on, there's no reason to have a 900MB mailbox, split it up for God's sake.
You don't watch the same game over and over because sports are not meant to be enjoyed as a recording.
While I understand what you're trying to say (I listen to more boots than recorded music, so I'm with you here), sports can and is enjoyed over and over again. There's a whole network for it (ESPN Classic), Speed Channel shows 10 year old Formula 1 races (F1 Decade), Golf Channel shows old golf tournaments, etc. None of those would exist if people didn't enjoy watching and paying for (since they're on cable) old games (races, whatever).
New around here? This is/., FM radio is corporate! ClearChannel rules FM, therefore it's evil. How can you advocate listening to any FM?
On a serious note, SW is great, especially if you like talk radio (doubtful around/., personally I love it). Throw in the world news (once again, this is big on/. as America is evil, so we need to listen to others to find out what we are like) and it's very, very interesting.
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I started a company too. I knew going in that it was going to be a lot of work, ie. 70-80 hour weeks. That's the price you pay for owning the company.
Of course, you post makes it sound like that you weren't really involved in the equity side. What do you mean by "helped start"? Were you an early employee or part of the ownership?
Either way, working for a startup has known tradeoffs, the main one is that the company is always understaff and overworked at the start. Everybody should realize that. Depending on your timeframe, getting "screwed" could make a difference between having a job or not. If you've got a family, house, etc., getting "screwed" means that your family can eat and have shelter.
Many of those mom and pop shops should have been out of business long ago. Go to some of those, do they have a lot of "well" paid employees? Most likely not. They probably have a bunch of family members or a bunch of part timers earning not much more, if any, than anybody at WalMart.
You should never exercise stock options unless you are going to sell them immediately. You don't exercise them to hold them. That's Stock Options 101, any advisor (except maybe somebody in your company) would tell you that. If you had enough options to make "real" money then you should have spent a few bucks and got some advice. (Note, the "you" here is the hypothetical "you", not an attack on glock.)
This isn't limited to Target. Most stores that have self-swipe terminals ask to see it. You should be happy for it as in theory (yes, I know in practice it doesn't always work this way) the cashier is supposed to confirm the signature.
The convenience is there as you can swipe the card as the cashier is ringing up the items. Then the acceptance process is completed faster.
This of course assumes that you have a Series 1 and something like a TivoNet card installed.
Do keep in mind that you may not be gaining much in quality over a VCR unless you have a DirectTivo as the show will be converted from your analog/digital cable into the Tivo format which means data loss.
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Uh, that's because it was free. Long term it will fail. The line is one of the dumbest ones to do. If they wanted to get people to use it they should have gone down 35W South or 394 or something, ie. where people actually commute from.
Well if our previous "enlightened" govenor and democrat controlled legislature hadn't wasted $750M+ on light rail (for a line that helps virtually nobody) then maybe there would have been money to do it "right".
Ahh...OK, that makes sense. Thanks!! Still sucks :)
This looks great! My big gripe? Why does everybody have FM receivers but no AM? I listen to a lot of talk radio on AM, but at times want my MP3 player (Archos). Currently I have to bring 2 different devices along. I don't understand why "ancient" technology like AM has to be exluded.
My company does it all the time. Right now I am on a project displacing an Avaya PBX w/ a Cisco IP system. All new phones (the old ones will not work), and no analog phones or faxes. If you use the right technologies, such as analog->IP gateways, you do not need anything. A large part of our business is PBX displacement, and normal businesses have no problem displacing everything.
Yeah, and you can use Cisco ATA's to do the same thing. However, the OP was talking about "normal" phones w/ a traditional PBX which generally is not doable. Plus, normal phones do not have the features that a digital phone would have, therefore businesses (we're not talking home users here) want the digital phones. Yes, home users will want the conventional phones as they generally do not want to spend $500/phone, but for a normal business this is no big deal.
Have you ever seen a "real" PBX that doesn't use proprietary phones? You can't use Nortel phones on an Avaya PBX. Phone costs are built into the cost of switching PBXs. The only places that use "classic" (ie. analog) phones are the small companies. Every real PBX has it's own digital phones.
Of course, with a Mac, you don't even need the crossover cable, it will realize that it's host to host and do it for you, much like any decent switch. This is _much_ easier for smallish networks or ad hoc connections.
Forget Esperanto, Speak Engrish!
Get VirtualWin. Edge flipping, small, configurable keys, and it's even GPL.
Same thing happened to me and my company a couple years ago (yes, after the dot bomb). We had a promising product (actually a service), but didn't have the funding. We had been a successful small local ISP for 5 years but had done a lot of contract programming too. We knew we had something good going, but couldn't find private financing (2001), so we started talking to a couple complementary companies who were big enough to fund this. We leveraged ourselves quite a bit to get a proof of concept up and running and were within a couple weeks of shutting the doors before one of the companies pulled the trigger and bought us.
Things have worked out great. Everybody is still on board and the product is almost making money (it isn't budgeted to make money until next year so we're ahead of the game), so everybody is happy all around.
It sounds like you've done this already, but for others, pay for the lawyer! We spent quite a bit of money to make sure we had a good lawyer look over the contracts and such. We knew a couple of the higher ups at the buying company, but you can never trust them entirely business wise.
You should also look at getting employment contracts for 2-3 years to ensure that you are still around for a while.
We didn't get rich, but we still have jobs and are still doing the stuff we want to do. All in all, it's worked out great for us. YMMV.
The newer (4.x) versions of the Cisco VPN client allow fast user switching, no special version or anything.
Basically, don't stay logged into the VPN if you're not physically on the box, then it doesn't really matter.
Uh, yeah. :)
(Repeat after me, don't post while at work...)
The problem with this is that spam for one person is not spam for another. That's the beauty of Bayes. If you are a proctologist, for example, you probably get a lot of legitimate email with the word penis in it. If you are a plastic surgeon, you may get legitimate email that discusses body part enlargement. There are hundreds of examples. The beauty of Bayes is that you can make it work for you and not be all encompassing.
The SpamAssassin people have talked about this in the past. They have a corpus of spam that they use to test rules and people have asked to download it to seed their own Bayes, but the SA people don't want to do that (a good thing) as Bayes is a personal thing.
What you are proposing will work for general spam checking, but not for Bayes, which is what the original poster asked about. In reality, it's hard to test Bayes in a general case. All I know is that it's worked wonders for me (using SA).
Correct, that's why you take 10 mins and setup a separate account that is used only for PayPal. Get a no minimum balance account and plop $20 in there or something. Transfer funds in as you need to buy something, transfer out to your "real" account as people pay in. I use it that way with eBay all the time, the most I can have frozen at any given time is about $20. I don't have a credit card associated with them (that could be because I signed up w/ them when they were still 'x.com') or anything that can adversely affect me. I know at my bank I can setup automatic sweeps that if a balance gets to a certain level in an account I can have it automatically sweep it to another account.
I'm not saying that PayPal is the be all end all by any means, but for better or worse, it's the best out there. Other services such as c2it don't require you to tie an account to anything, but they charge something like $10 per transaction. PayPal offers the best overall value for small payments.
I think 10.3 comes with a new feature called "Mail Folders". The description I read says: "Mail folders now allow you to store old email that you wish to keep so that it no longer clutters up your mailbox." *whew* Now you'll be able to split them up! Thankfully they brought this up now!
Come on, there's no reason to have a 900MB mailbox, split it up for God's sake.
You don't watch the same game over and over because sports are not meant to be enjoyed as a recording.
While I understand what you're trying to say (I listen to more boots than recorded music, so I'm with you here), sports can and is enjoyed over and over again. There's a whole network for it (ESPN Classic), Speed Channel shows 10 year old Formula 1 races (F1 Decade), Golf Channel shows old golf tournaments, etc. None of those would exist if people didn't enjoy watching and paying for (since they're on cable) old games (races, whatever).
New around here? This is /., FM radio is corporate! ClearChannel rules FM, therefore it's evil. How can you advocate listening to any FM?
/., personally I love it). Throw in the world news (once again, this is big on /. as America is evil, so we need to listen to others to find out what we are like) and it's very, very interesting.
On a serious note, SW is great, especially if you like talk radio (doubtful around
I started a company too. I knew going in that it was going to be a lot of work, ie. 70-80 hour weeks. That's the price you pay for owning the company.
Of course, you post makes it sound like that you weren't really involved in the equity side. What do you mean by "helped start"? Were you an early employee or part of the ownership?
Either way, working for a startup has known tradeoffs, the main one is that the company is always understaff and overworked at the start. Everybody should realize that. Depending on your timeframe, getting "screwed" could make a difference between having a job or not. If you've got a family, house, etc., getting "screwed" means that your family can eat and have shelter.
Many of those mom and pop shops should have been out of business long ago. Go to some of those, do they have a lot of "well" paid employees? Most likely not. They probably have a bunch of family members or a bunch of part timers earning not much more, if any, than anybody at WalMart.
Duh!
You should never exercise stock options unless you are going to sell them immediately. You don't exercise them to hold them. That's Stock Options 101, any advisor (except maybe somebody in your company) would tell you that. If you had enough options to make "real" money then you should have spent a few bucks and got some advice. (Note, the "you" here is the hypothetical "you", not an attack on glock.)
The Empire State building has taken at least 2 plane hits during its lifespan.
And don't forget it survived King Kong climbing on it too!
This isn't limited to Target. Most stores that have self-swipe terminals ask to see it. You should be happy for it as in theory (yes, I know in practice it doesn't always work this way) the cashier is supposed to confirm the signature.
The convenience is there as you can swipe the card as the cashier is ringing up the items. Then the acceptance process is completed faster.
With TyStudio.
This of course assumes that you have a Series 1 and something like a TivoNet card installed.
Do keep in mind that you may not be gaining much in quality over a VCR unless you have a DirectTivo as the show will be converted from your analog/digital cable into the Tivo format which means data loss.
No doubt, thankfully Clinton is gone now.