I'm having the same kinds of browser issues with my university website. they use lotus notes, which is requiring IE. Anyone who makes a website that's only usable on one browser on one platform ought'a be looking for a new job.
that's not all true... I lived in kansas and now live in Nebraska. I've been in oklahoma quite a few times while driving. Anyway, people think of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska as having no trees. get off the damn interstate and look around. my house is 7 miles off of Interstate 80. It's hilly, got canyons and trees.
What gives our states a bad name (of flatness?) is that the interstate is built on the flattest and straightest land they can use. Most people stay on interstate, so they automatically think the state's dead flat.
and, by the way, our states have more trees than they've ever had. Cottonwood trees spread like crazy around here.
We exported all of our sales documents (pitch sheets, memos, forms, rate cards, posters, etc.) to flash instead of PDF over the summer. The smallest we could compress a PDF of these documents was around 300kb each (from CoredDraw 9). We can export them to Flash, which gets them at perfect quality for under 80kb. That's a hell of a lot of storage savings when you put all your sales docs on a website.
I was at a ham festival in Victoria Springs, Nebraska a few years ago where we built an antenna out of clothesline and copper wire. It was so badass. I'm still new to the ham world, but when some of the older guys saw what we were doing, they ran in and got all kinds of tuners and books of formula. Anyway, with that antenna we were able to listen in on an easter egg hunt, which was pretty sweet. hams rock
actually... it's possible to get porn over ham. You have to use Packet. I'm sure there's another ham out there who can explain it better than me, but it CAN be done! just... very... very slowly.
not really, because they have to 1.) enter your property in the first place and 2.) you have to ask them to leave before you can have them arrested. Unless, of course, you have the sign on a fence or something... then yeah, that'd work swell too
heh, sounds like my dorm room. Our handle door stopper thing fell off two weeks ago for reasons i won't go into here, so we used putty and chewed gum to stick it back on the wall.
Would it work to post something like a software license where it says 'by opening this cd you agree to the terms and conditions...' on your door? have it say... 'by knocking on this door you agree that you aren't selling anything, aren't trying to 'save' me from my evil ways, yadda yadda yadda.'
even if it wasn't a legally binding thing, i think it'd be hilarious to come to the door after a salesperson knocks and say, 'did you read the eula?' and make them feel stupid as you point out section a paragraph b line g.
"Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away."
Which, after a court order, will be changed to:
"Hello, this is Homer Simpson, AKA Happy Dude. The court has ordered me to call every person in town to apologize for my telemarketing scam. I'm sorry. If you can find it in your heart to forgive me, send one dollar to: Sad Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. You have the power." -Homer
don't get too excited there, guy. just becuase someone puts out a 'standard' doesn't mean everyone has to follow it. anyone can form an organization to make standards, but they dont' mean anything if nobody wants to follow them.
Not only that, but people like microsoft will just make their own standards and ignore the ones already set. They won't have any affect on anything, imho.
I think the only way the space industry will have a second wind of interest is with the private sector business and investments on their part. Organizations that are run by the government care less about making things happen, and more about making people feel good about themselves, and having job titles. It's just the way it is. The only way to profit is to take risk and run things like a business, which no government organizations will do... so, basically, i agree with you.
It is a right for someone to communicate with another person and rights aren't licensed, are they?
You're right that people have the right to communicate with each other, but that doesn't make every method of communication a given right. For instance, you need a license to communicate on HAM radio, and until recently you needed a license to be on a real radio station.
In my junior high we had to go through an 'internet orientation' and actually get a permit to use the school's internet, which seemed reasonable at the time. I think if anyone does internet licensing (certification?), it'll have to be employers and organizations who want to actually stop dumbass employees from spreading virii. There shouldnt be laws making it mandatory to have a license, but people who want their networks to be secure should have local policies that encourage it.
1) Creating stuff costs money.
2) Many customers would prefer to pay for stuff through inconvenience or transfer of information instead of payment of money.
I missed something here. What's the product that they're providing to me that i'm 'paying through inconvenience' for.
If one was created and worked 100% correctly we could get in the media with it. Media connections aren't a problem. If the population knew that there was an alternative that didn't have the opportunity for fraud and it was cheap, they'd be for it. With the masses supporting something that was secure and open, i don't see how they could possibly argue against it.
Our side of the debate would go like this: Our machine is secure, cheap, and works.
Basically, that would be enough. We'd have to elaborate on the 'how is it secure if everyone can see how it works' argument, but that would do it.
Their argument: They want to spend millions on machines that are closed source, proven to be insecure, proven to not work correctly, and have the opportunity to be tampered with.
It really doesn't seem like an argument at all. But it's got to reach the public first. They'll shut it down right away if this just shows up on their desk as a proposal. But if enough people knew it was out there, it'd be impossible for them to ignore it.
You mention Hagel... did you know i was from nebraska or did you randomly choose that one?
I'd really like to see your sources for the following comments:
it was discovered that boxes of ballots had been damaged
left in insecure locations
lost
one case even stolen
The large delays weren't on account of time needed to actually recount, but to establish how to compensate for the above, and for the fact that many boxes were discovered to never have been counted in the first place!
I want facts, not propaganda or liberal conjecture.
Simson Garfield looks at the other side of the story and comes away thinking that e-voting might not be so bad, if done properly....
I don't think electronic voting being a good or bad thing is the debate at all. Most people think it'd be a better, more organized way to do it. Most of the people who are against it are the typical nay-sayers who are going to be against any type of progress/innovation.
The real debate is about who'se going to be making the software/equipment to make it happen. We've heard about the buggyness of the Diebold voting systems, and talked about how we'd design the voting systems...
So why don't some of us get together and just do it? Seriously, if someone made an OpenSource voting booth that was secure and worked well, it'd be huge -- plus, it'd be cheaper for the government. I can't think of a better way to get some exposure to OpenSource.
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The truth is that most slashdot readers do belong to his team. Look at any discussion here, it's easy to see the way they sway.
Hammacher Schlemmer has the most overpcied, cool, and fun stuff around. it's borderline insanity.... but very cool.
I'm having the same kinds of browser issues with my university website. they use lotus notes, which is requiring IE. Anyone who makes a website that's only usable on one browser on one platform ought'a be looking for a new job.
17x17 cm has been the standard itx board size, this one's a wee bit smaller.
From epiacenter.com:
Size: 12x12cm
heh, true... we can't be compared to an arizona or colorado, but it's still not as flat as people imagine.
that's not all true... I lived in kansas and now live in Nebraska. I've been in oklahoma quite a few times while driving. Anyway, people think of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska as having no trees. get off the damn interstate and look around. my house is 7 miles off of Interstate 80. It's hilly, got canyons and trees.
What gives our states a bad name (of flatness?) is that the interstate is built on the flattest and straightest land they can use. Most people stay on interstate, so they automatically think the state's dead flat.
and, by the way, our states have more trees than they've ever had. Cottonwood trees spread like crazy around here.
We exported all of our sales documents (pitch sheets, memos, forms, rate cards, posters, etc.) to flash instead of PDF over the summer. The smallest we could compress a PDF of these documents was around 300kb each (from CoredDraw 9). We can export them to Flash, which gets them at perfect quality for under 80kb. That's a hell of a lot of storage savings when you put all your sales docs on a website.
I was at a ham festival in Victoria Springs, Nebraska a few years ago where we built an antenna out of clothesline and copper wire. It was so badass. I'm still new to the ham world, but when some of the older guys saw what we were doing, they ran in and got all kinds of tuners and books of formula. Anyway, with that antenna we were able to listen in on an easter egg hunt, which was pretty sweet. hams rock
actually... it's possible to get porn over ham. You have to use Packet. I'm sure there's another ham out there who can explain it better than me, but it CAN be done! just... very... very slowly.
not really, because they have to 1.) enter your property in the first place and 2.) you have to ask them to leave before you can have them arrested. Unless, of course, you have the sign on a fence or something... then yeah, that'd work swell too
this article estimates manure cost at about $40/acre... not sure of the tonnage.
heh, sounds like my dorm room. Our handle door stopper thing fell off two weeks ago for reasons i won't go into here, so we used putty and chewed gum to stick it back on the wall.
:-)
2 weeks later... still holdin
Would it work to post something like a software license where it says 'by opening this cd you agree to the terms and conditions...' on your door? have it say... 'by knocking on this door you agree that you aren't selling anything, aren't trying to 'save' me from my evil ways, yadda yadda yadda.'
even if it wasn't a legally binding thing, i think it'd be hilarious to come to the door after a salesperson knocks and say, 'did you read the eula?' and make them feel stupid as you point out section a paragraph b line g.
"Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away."
Which, after a court order, will be changed to:
"Hello, this is Homer Simpson, AKA Happy Dude. The court has ordered me to call every person in town to apologize for my telemarketing scam. I'm sorry. If you can find it in your heart to forgive me, send one dollar to: Sad Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. You have the power." -Homer
You must be jewish, because no non-jew could say something like that and get away with it!
don't get too excited there, guy. just becuase someone puts out a 'standard' doesn't mean everyone has to follow it. anyone can form an organization to make standards, but they dont' mean anything if nobody wants to follow them.
Not only that, but people like microsoft will just make their own standards and ignore the ones already set. They won't have any affect on anything, imho.
I think the only way the space industry will have a second wind of interest is with the private sector business and investments on their part. Organizations that are run by the government care less about making things happen, and more about making people feel good about themselves, and having job titles. It's just the way it is. The only way to profit is to take risk and run things like a business, which no government organizations will do... so, basically, i agree with you.
damn straight. you rock.
It is a right for someone to communicate with another person and rights aren't licensed, are they?
You're right that people have the right to communicate with each other, but that doesn't make every method of communication a given right. For instance, you need a license to communicate on HAM radio, and until recently you needed a license to be on a real radio station.
In my junior high we had to go through an 'internet orientation' and actually get a permit to use the school's internet, which seemed reasonable at the time. I think if anyone does internet licensing (certification?), it'll have to be employers and organizations who want to actually stop dumbass employees from spreading virii. There shouldnt be laws making it mandatory to have a license, but people who want their networks to be secure should have local policies that encourage it.
If one was created and worked 100% correctly we could get in the media with it. Media connections aren't a problem. If the population knew that there was an alternative that didn't have the opportunity for fraud and it was cheap, they'd be for it. With the masses supporting something that was secure and open, i don't see how they could possibly argue against it.
Our side of the debate would go like this: Our machine is secure, cheap, and works.
Basically, that would be enough. We'd have to elaborate on the 'how is it secure if everyone can see how it works' argument, but that would do it.
Their argument: They want to spend millions on machines that are closed source, proven to be insecure, proven to not work correctly, and have the opportunity to be tampered with.
It really doesn't seem like an argument at all. But it's got to reach the public first. They'll shut it down right away if this just shows up on their desk as a proposal. But if enough people knew it was out there, it'd be impossible for them to ignore it.
You mention Hagel... did you know i was from nebraska or did you randomly choose that one?
it was discovered that boxes of ballots had been damaged
left in insecure locations
lost
one case even stolen
The large delays weren't on account of time needed to actually recount, but to establish how to compensate for the above, and for the fact that many boxes were discovered to never have been counted in the first place!
I want facts, not propaganda or liberal conjecture.
The real debate is about who'se going to be making the software/equipment to make it happen. We've heard about the buggyness of the Diebold voting systems, and talked about how we'd design the voting systems...
So why don't some of us get together and just do it? Seriously, if someone made an OpenSource voting booth that was secure and worked well, it'd be huge -- plus, it'd be cheaper for the government. I can't think of a better way to get some exposure to OpenSource.
Pretty sure that's the first message i've ever read that actually compared beer to broadband... and it made sense! you're the man.
That's amazing, considering France's crappy military history.