>>There are no ifs ands or buts, tech support for >>home users SUCKS!!
It may, but it pays the bills. There are more people using America Online who don't know know anything about their computers. These people will pay good money for someone to hold their hand and do that kind of thing.
A year ago I was working at a Mail Boxes etc. clone, and I got into a conversation with a lady about her computer. She was having trouble getting her dsl working. I told her I would go and check it out for her, for $20/hour. She was thrilled. I fixed the problem, got paid, and anytime that she had a problem, she called me. I went from that one lady to 15 clients. I still work at the Mail Boxes Etc clone, but the extra income is nice. I hope this year to get at least another 15 clients (which was just through word of mouth) I get to maintain my own schedule, and its fun to help people and get paid for it.
Some of the fan fiction is actually pretty good, especially on schnoogle. There are actually many many full length novels that people have posted to the web because people are so Hungry for Harry Potter.
My favorite is http://www.schnoogle.com/authorLinks/Barb/PST01_Ps ychic_Serpent/
Cool with me. I currently have a couple of basil plants, mint, and onions on my second floor half a double in new orleans, but am looking to start some bigger food crops, however my biggest limiting factor is sunlight. I have only about 10 square feet total that gets good (>= 6 hours) sunlight. That is taken from one landing, and a converted garbage hanger.
Do you have any suggestions for tomato's or cucumbers or lettuce in planters, milk crates, anything scavenged (non-traditional)?
I think that learning how to do things yourself does give you more control, and is definitely akin to hacking. I remember screwing up plants through trial and error for 2 years before I got watering right (or at least better) Once you have got down that skill, in my case watering, that direct knowledge is yours. You don't just know in the abstract anymore about how processes work. You KNOW.......the same thing goes for fixing bicycles, printers, musical instruments, computers, biology, religion. All of these things once taken out of the abstract really can have direct meaning instead of just being ideas that other people have given you. I know that things I have learned directly have given me more satisfaction than concepts I have read, or seen on tv, or browsed on the internet.
Do you think we could do this at wastemanagement plants in the US? I think that would be a great idea. Humans produce so much shit all the time, and if we did this we could at least turn it into fertilizer and energy?
2600 threw a con, xmas con in new orleans and there was a fbi agent there who came to speak. Basically what he said (this is what I have heard) is that if they see some encrypted communications, and they want to know what's in it, they can sick a couple of supercomputers on it to get that informtation.
that makes me a little paranoid. I think the better solution would be to increase the amount of encrypted traffic as opposed to just key length, thereby making the data that much harder to sift through.
but encryption is too hard, not enough people use it. I have a hard time getting it setup even.
My aunt works at Wal-mart, and until I spoke with her I didn't realize how huge wal-mart is. If they get a product stocked at their stores that can literally make a company. Huge companies like Proctor and Gamble have to divert production when Wal-mart wants to run a special on their products. If Wal-mart is buying that can stop production for ANYTHING ELSE If we could only get these machines in the stores now.
bruce sterling (sci fi author) wrote about this. If the US keeps messing with these guys, then they could say, we don't accept any of your IP laws, and then post ALL of our IP on the internet, thereby crippling our economy.
Suite numbers are generallly illegal for private companies to use, I know that it is in New Orleans, and since the mail is Federal, uniformity should apply. The exception being unless it's a physical address. Mailboxes typically use the designation pmb (private mail box) (postal mail box) or the # symbol.
Another application could be pgp encryption on phone systems. i don't know if that has anything to do with the network layer......but I think this would be a great deal.
You should check out some of the jam bands. they actually practice this philosophy of pay for performances, let people trade audio recordings because they know that is the way to build a dedicated fanbase.
I don't think that's fair at all. I too am a musician, and If you want to agree to a major label contract with one of those big companies, then you have take their prices, even if that is 3 % off a $20 cd applied to all kinds of debt incurred by the recording/ distribution process. Choose a different option! Sell unlimited use mp3's / ogg vorbis files on the internet. Stop getting bent over by a company that just wants you to make money. You can make just as much money without being indebted to those money grubbing assholes. You know, before people had recording technologies, they made money on playing music live. You should try that.
I agree. I think that there is a big window for a major coup by the open source community. I am not against the hardcore coder guys, hell, we wouldn't even have linux without them, but I still think that accessability is a key issue. I like that fact that my distro has been tweaked by me, ableit not too much, I like that fact that I have access to all this GREAT configurability. It just needs to presented in an accessible manner, and that is where my hope lies. If I can learn how to use gnu/linux, anyone can....
I agree, I used mandrake as my first install, and the fact is, if it hadn't been easy to install, I probably would have given up. I think that it is important to know how to change what you want, but if you can't get a newbie to use something because of the perceived difficulty, we won't have any adoptees of Linux, regardless of the distrobution. I am now using Red Hat 7.3 which is working, but it took a while to actually get it running. I don't think that joe q public is going to want to sit down and edit the configuration file for X. Why, because he doesn't expect that to be a condition of computing. the average user expects it to be easy and painless and fairly useful. Otherwise, he would be an IT professional, or a developer, or a Computer Science student. Mandrake and any distro that makes it easier for new people to get set up on linux is ok in my book.
Not at all, but I think that profiting from an invention, and having a state sanctioned monopoly on that invention are two different things. I agree that it is expensive, but I think that there has to be another way for a company to profit other than strict control of the IP
I think that given our current economic climate, I would be surprised if any of these technologies were released without some "industrial" rights management. The bottom line is that companies feel like the should be the only one to profit from their inventions. imho the only way that we will have these kinds of niceties are if the big companies start to play nice nice with the consumer, or if this kind of stuff is GPL'ed
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>>There are no ifs ands or buts, tech support for >>home users SUCKS!!
It may, but it pays the bills. There are more people using America Online who don't know know anything about their computers. These people will pay good money for someone to hold their hand and do that kind of thing.
A year ago I was working at a Mail Boxes etc. clone, and I got into a conversation with a lady about her computer. She was having trouble getting her dsl working. I told her I would go and check it out for her, for $20/hour. She was thrilled. I fixed the problem, got paid, and anytime that she had a problem, she called me. I went from that one lady to 15 clients. I still work at the Mail Boxes Etc clone, but the extra income is nice. I hope this year to get at least another 15 clients (which was just through word of mouth) I get to maintain my own schedule, and its fun to help people and get paid for it.
Some of the fan fiction is actually pretty good, especially on schnoogle. There are actually many many full length novels that people have posted to the web because people are so Hungry for Harry Potter.
s ychic_Serpent/
My favorite is http://www.schnoogle.com/authorLinks/Barb/PST01_P
Cool with me.
I currently have a couple of basil plants, mint, and onions on my second floor half a double in new orleans, but am looking to start some bigger food crops, however my biggest limiting factor is sunlight. I have only about 10 square feet total that gets good (>= 6 hours) sunlight. That is taken from one landing, and a converted garbage hanger.
Do you have any suggestions for tomato's or cucumbers or lettuce in planters, milk crates, anything scavenged (non-traditional)?
I think that learning how to do things yourself does give you more control, and is definitely akin to hacking. I remember screwing up plants through trial and error for 2 years before I got watering right (or at least better)
Once you have got down that skill, in my case watering, that direct knowledge is yours. You don't just know in the abstract anymore about how processes work. You KNOW.......the same thing goes for fixing bicycles, printers, musical instruments, computers, biology, religion. All of these things once taken out of the abstract really can have direct meaning instead of just being ideas that other people have given you. I know that things I have learned directly have given me more satisfaction than concepts I have read, or seen on tv, or browsed on the internet.
Do you think we could do this at wastemanagement plants in the US? I think that would be a great idea. Humans produce so much shit all the time, and if we did this we could at least turn it into fertilizer and energy?
2600 threw a con, xmas con in new orleans and there was a fbi agent there who came to speak. Basically what he said (this is what I have heard) is that if they see some encrypted communications, and they want to know what's in it, they can sick a couple of supercomputers on it to get that informtation.
that makes me a little paranoid. I think the better solution would be to increase the amount of encrypted traffic as opposed to just key length, thereby making the data that much harder to sift through.
but encryption is too hard, not enough people use it. I have a hard time getting it setup even.
do you have a link to that arrticle?
I would like to read it.
thanks
Chris Bloch
My aunt works at Wal-mart, and until I spoke with her I didn't realize how huge wal-mart is. If they get a product stocked at their stores that can literally make a company. Huge companies like Proctor and Gamble have to divert production when Wal-mart wants to run a special on their products. If Wal-mart is buying that can stop production for ANYTHING ELSE If we could only get these machines in the stores now.
bruce sterling (sci fi author) wrote about this. If the US keeps messing with these guys, then they could say, we don't accept any of your IP laws, and then post ALL of our IP on the internet, thereby crippling our economy.
Suite numbers are generallly illegal for private companies to use, I know that it is in New Orleans, and since the mail is Federal, uniformity should apply. The exception being unless it's a physical address. Mailboxes typically use the designation pmb (private mail box) (postal mail box) or the # symbol.
I work for a private mail receiving place.
register: blah di blah is the standard reference to the New York Times Web site for some reason.
don't let that get out, with the patriot act, you don't want the big guys to even think about the applications we might have until its ubiquitous.
I love my government, but I fear them more.
Another application could be pgp encryption on phone systems. i don't know if that has anything to do with the network layer......but I think this would be a great deal.
You should check out some of the jam bands. they actually practice this philosophy of pay for performances, let people trade audio recordings because they know that is the way to build a dedicated fanbase.
I don't think that's fair at all. I too am a musician, and If you want to agree to a major label contract with one of those big companies, then you have take their prices, even if that is 3 % off a $20 cd applied to all kinds of debt incurred by the recording/ distribution process.
Choose a different option! Sell unlimited use mp3's / ogg vorbis files on the internet. Stop getting bent over by a company that just wants you to make money. You can make just as much money without being indebted to those money grubbing assholes. You know, before people had recording technologies, they made money on playing music live. You should try that.
Have they actually abused their power? Or is this just politics?
I agree. I think that there is a big window for a major coup by the open source community. I am not against the hardcore coder guys, hell, we wouldn't even have linux without them, but I still think that accessability is a key issue. I like that fact that my distro has been tweaked by me, ableit not too much, I like that fact that I have access to all this GREAT configurability. It just needs to presented in an accessible manner, and that is where my hope lies. If I can learn how to use gnu/linux, anyone can....
I agree, I used mandrake as my first install, and the fact is, if it hadn't been easy to install, I probably would have given up. I think that it is important to know how to change what you want, but if you can't get a newbie to use something because of the perceived difficulty, we won't have any adoptees of Linux, regardless of the distrobution. I am now using Red Hat 7.3 which is working, but it took a while to actually get it running. I don't think that joe q public is going to want to sit down and edit the configuration file for X. Why, because he doesn't expect that to be a condition of computing. the average user expects it to be easy and painless and fairly useful. Otherwise, he would be an IT professional, or a developer, or a Computer Science student. Mandrake and any distro that makes it easier for new people to get set up on linux is ok in my book.
Not at all, but I think that profiting from an invention, and having a state sanctioned monopoly on that invention are two different things. I agree that it is expensive, but I think that there has to be another way for a company to profit other than strict control of the IP
I think that given our current economic climate, I would be surprised if any of these technologies were released without some "industrial" rights management. The bottom line is that companies feel like the should be the only one to profit from their inventions. imho the only way that we will have these kinds of niceties are if the big companies start to play nice nice with the consumer, or if this kind of stuff is GPL'ed