I was travelling recently in Indonesia and Singapore and saw an interesting machine in one of my hotels -- you walk up, pick which newspaper(s) you want from a rather lengthy list, insert your credit card to pay for it, and then wait 10mins while your personal newspaper is accessed (presumably downloaded) and printed right there at the kiosk! It was an impressive mini printing press that I have never seen before.
Perhaps this is common in parts of the world but I have never seen it before. Of course I forget the name of the company but I'm sure I could find it in 30sec on Google if I really cared to.
there are several freely available software programs available that parse your PST files and output files that can be imported by other mail programs.
we had a situation at my last employer where someone had hosed their box pretty badly due to literally 1gig of email. outlook wouldn't open and the PST files were corrupted. after searching around a bit, i found 3 or 4 programs for dealing with this issue.
poke around on google or freshmeat, i'm sure you'll find something similarly useful.
Dammit their service has been GREAT for me for a good year and a half now. Sure it cost more than a cable modem from my local (Charter Communications) cable tv company but the quality of service has been excellent. Also Charter SUCKS in my area for TV so I can't imagine their cable modem service being any better.
It was nice being able to use the Net if/when the TV went out. Now I will have to go to BellSouth or Charter for the same money, less quality of service, and dynamic IPs unless I pay more money. ARGH.
And, have you tried Sun ONE Studio 4 update 1 from Sun. I have run both the WinXX and Linux version and it is superb!... My Athlon 1 GHz with 512MB runs it just as fast as my Dell 2.2GHz box with 1 GB RAM at work.
I have Sun1S and Netbeans and other Java IDEs installed on my machines, but I generally go back to Eclipse just because it runs so much better on all my machines (several machines from AMD 850mhz up to P4-2ghz) than anything else IME. It has the same CVS features as Sun1S and also integrates well with Ant.
I was raised in Central Florida, took German in High School and had trouble with some of the pronunciation. Now I live in Miami and I'm learning some Spanish, but I CANNOT roll my R's -- my tongue just won't do it!
The Chinese govt doesn't want to embarass their citizens... so they are blocking sites like RedLobster.com to keep them from trying to say words like Wed Wobstew!
Personally I buy quite a few things that are "free after mail-in rebate" and have not had any major issues getting the money I am owed.
Of course I make photocopies of everything I send, and I follow the rebate requirements very strictly. Of course I've had to call in once or twice when it appeared my rebate was stuck or denied for no reason, and always been successful in having it approved.
It takes some work and time but its worth it to me. Just recently I got a Netgear wireless router and Logitech webcam from Amazon for $60, free shipping, no tax and there is $50 in rebates... so my total cost is $10! I could have added a coupon for another $5 off if I had thought about it before hitting order, but I was excited at the deal and clicked too quickly.:)
At least one person on Fatwallet claims to be involved in advertising for a retailer. You can find his post on page 2 of the DMCA thread if you care to find it.
As someone who works in the retail industry at the exexutive level, I can say with almost complete certainty that EVERY store knows what their competition is planning. There are moles in all companies and people leave one company for a competitor and share info. with their friends at the former company.
Sure I've heard of loss leaders. I don't really care what stores are paying for goods vs what they are selling them for. That's not MY CONCERN as a consumer.
I just think this whole argument about the "poor stores" who are "losing money" on my purchase is dumb. Perhaps the stores are making $0 profit, or even a slight loss on that product, but they are limiting their losses by stocking a very small quantity of those items on the day of the sales.
Their ads claim "minimum 15 per store" but they might as well say "We only have 15 in each store, and if you aren't in the line at the front door by 5am you certainly aren't getting one of them".
Anyways, I would dispute that Best Buy et al lost any money on their super low priced products -- these stores are big enough that they can go directly to the mfg of the product and say "We need 15 x # of stores of this item to sell for $xx on Black Friday, what kind of price will you give us?" When you are sending an order for 15x1900 of an item (bestbuy.com claims 1900 retail stores), I'm sure you can find a low enough price point with the mfg that you can still turn a profit.
They lose money on these sales, but they do this because they know that once they get you into the store, you will more likely than not buy something else too.
I dispute your claim that retail stores are selling these items "for a loss".
What a moronic statement. The stores are merely "making less of a profit" on those items -- they still make money!!
i am a member of FW, and the information that was posted was simply a long list of items + prices. there were no posted JPEGs or PDFs of the actual WalMart circular == just text.
mouse gestures are awesome. first experienced them in some game a while ago and then discovered Opera supported them too -- haven't looked back. Moz + Optimoz is a great combo too. makes using IE so boring.
i just wish i could specify my OWN gestures instead of using the built-in ones. i've accidentally closed so many windows i can't even count them all.
CLEARLY these EKT girls are running a porn cam site from their sorority house...
The sisters of Epsilon Kappa Theta are definitely up to something. The wireless cards in the sorority house's computers each move an average of 222 Mbytes of data per day -- only one other spot on campus, an administrative building, moves more than 150 Mbytes a day per card. An MP3 server, perhaps? Maybe they're watching streamed video on a big-screen TV -- or using high-bandwidth Internet radio to supply the music for all-night parties. They could be trying to corner the market on Diesel jeans via sorority eshopping excursions, or running a molecular modeling program for a pharmaceutical company. We may never know for sure. Since the college has a strict policy against monitoring student computer use unless investigating complaints, university officials couldn't tell me what's going on. The sisters of EKT did not respond to my prying emails. So for now, their secret remains safe.
The sisters of Epsilon Kappa Theta are definitely up to something, moving an average of 1.3 Gbytes a day.
Does such a thing exist or am I just engaging in wishful thinking to imagine that there might be something flexible enough to do the job? What do other people do to test their software?
holy crap what an amazing idea! automated software testing of web applications! you're the first to come with this, so pat yourself on the back and run to the USPTO to patent this excellent idea!!
next time how about browsing the web (google helps!) for 5 mins before posting this kind of Ask Slashdot question...
I will light the Internet on FIRE with my edits!!
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yea boy oh boy thats the one big thing i've been waiting for all this time!!! now i can edit TV shows just for FUN for me and my friends!! my edited versions of his show will light the Internet on FIRE!!! my dreams have come true!!
while back in reality... the only good that will come from this is that someone will most likely edit Mr.Cringley into a porno or something funny. i don't "get" the release of the "original raw footage".
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Don't you know you can't follow "only" with the words "12cpu, 24gb ram, 1tb disk"...
Found it:
http://www.pepcworldwide.com/
I saw these in Bali btw.
I was travelling recently in Indonesia and Singapore and saw an interesting machine in one of my hotels -- you walk up, pick which newspaper(s) you want from a rather lengthy list, insert your credit card to pay for it, and then wait 10mins while your personal newspaper is accessed (presumably downloaded) and printed right there at the kiosk! It was an impressive mini printing press that I have never seen before.
Perhaps this is common in parts of the world but I have never seen it before. Of course I forget the name of the company but I'm sure I could find it in 30sec on Google if I really cared to.
What about 486 Dx2 and Dx4?? I remember we had a DX2-50 which then we upgraded to a DX4-100 at a later date.
How did the DX2 and DX4 differ from DX, SX, etc? I wasn't really into hardware back then, and have always wondered...
there are several freely available software programs available that parse your PST files and output files that can be imported by other mail programs.
we had a situation at my last employer where someone had hosed their box pretty badly due to literally 1gig of email. outlook wouldn't open and the PST files were corrupted. after searching around a bit, i found 3 or 4 programs for dealing with this issue.
poke around on google or freshmeat, i'm sure you'll find something similarly useful.
I guess this is as good a time as any to get serious about trying to pirate someone's wireless signal nearby...
Dammit their service has been GREAT for me for a good year and a half now. Sure it cost more than a cable modem from my local (Charter Communications) cable tv company but the quality of service has been excellent. Also Charter SUCKS in my area for TV so I can't imagine their cable modem service being any better.
It was nice being able to use the Net if/when the TV went out. Now I will have to go to BellSouth or Charter for the same money, less quality of service, and dynamic IPs unless I pay more money. ARGH.
I have Sun1S and Netbeans and other Java IDEs installed on my machines, but I generally go back to Eclipse just because it runs so much better on all my machines (several machines from AMD 850mhz up to P4-2ghz) than anything else IME. It has the same CVS features as Sun1S and also integrates well with Ant.
i must be blind?
/5gb transfer
i see the following available on their site:
$30/yr = 100mb disk
$115/yr = 1gb disk / 50gb transfer
where did you get the 1gb/50gb plan for $3/mo?
Definitely true!
I was raised in Central Florida, took German in High School and had trouble with some of the pronunciation. Now I live in Miami and I'm learning some Spanish, but I CANNOT roll my R's -- my tongue just won't do it!
all in good fun :)
The Chinese govt doesn't want to embarass their citizens... so they are blocking sites like RedLobster.com to keep them from trying to say words like Wed Wobstew!
Personally I buy quite a few things that are "free after mail-in rebate" and have not had any major issues getting the money I am owed.
:)
Of course I make photocopies of everything I send, and I follow the rebate requirements very strictly. Of course I've had to call in once or twice when it appeared my rebate was stuck or denied for no reason, and always been successful in having it approved.
It takes some work and time but its worth it to me. Just recently I got a Netgear wireless router and Logitech webcam from Amazon for $60, free shipping, no tax and there is $50 in rebates... so my total cost is $10! I could have added a coupon for another $5 off if I had thought about it before hitting order, but I was excited at the deal and clicked too quickly.
At least one person on Fatwallet claims to be involved in advertising for a retailer. You can find his post on page 2 of the DMCA thread if you care to find it.
Sure I've heard of loss leaders. I don't really care what stores are paying for goods vs what they are selling them for. That's not MY CONCERN as a consumer.
I just think this whole argument about the "poor stores" who are "losing money" on my purchase is dumb. Perhaps the stores are making $0 profit, or even a slight loss on that product, but they are limiting their losses by stocking a very small quantity of those items on the day of the sales.
Their ads claim "minimum 15 per store" but they might as well say "We only have 15 in each store, and if you aren't in the line at the front door by 5am you certainly aren't getting one of them".
Anyways, I would dispute that Best Buy et al lost any money on their super low priced products -- these stores are big enough that they can go directly to the mfg of the product and say "We need 15 x # of stores of this item to sell for $xx on Black Friday, what kind of price will you give us?" When you are sending an order for 15x1900 of an item (bestbuy.com claims 1900 retail stores), I'm sure you can find a low enough price point with the mfg that you can still turn a profit.
They lose money on these sales, but they do this because they know that once they get you into the store, you will more likely than not buy something else too.
I dispute your claim that retail stores are selling these items "for a loss".
What a moronic statement. The stores are merely "making less of a profit" on those items -- they still make money!!
i am a member of FW, and the information that was posted was simply a long list of items + prices. there were no posted JPEGs or PDFs of the actual WalMart circular == just text.
I refuse to do your homework for you, you CS slacker!!
Wireless is a hot topic today, and it will continue to be hot for the next 10+ years.
The number of cell phones greatly surpases the number of computers in the world. This is a huge market that is just recently opening up.
Or go learn Chinese and try to get involved somehow with that MASSIVE market which is just recently opening up to the rest of the world.
Just imagine how many frames per second could I get on this Supercomputer?!?!?!
mouse gestures are awesome. first experienced them in some game a while ago and then discovered Opera supported them too -- haven't looked back. Moz + Optimoz is a great combo too. makes using IE so boring.
i just wish i could specify my OWN gestures instead of using the built-in ones. i've accidentally closed so many windows i can't even count them all.
CLEARLY these EKT girls are running a porn cam site from their sorority house...
The sisters of Epsilon Kappa Theta are definitely up to something. The wireless cards in the sorority house's computers each move an average of 222 Mbytes of data per day -- only one other spot on campus, an administrative building, moves more than 150 Mbytes a day per card. An MP3 server, perhaps? Maybe they're watching streamed video on a big-screen TV -- or using high-bandwidth Internet radio to supply the music for all-night parties. They could be trying to corner the market on Diesel jeans via sorority eshopping excursions, or running a molecular modeling program for a pharmaceutical company. We may never know for sure. Since the college has a strict policy against monitoring student computer use unless investigating complaints, university officials couldn't tell me what's going on. The sisters of EKT did not respond to my prying emails. So for now, their secret remains safe.
The sisters of Epsilon Kappa Theta are definitely up to something, moving an average of 1.3 Gbytes a day.
Does such a thing exist or am I just engaging in wishful thinking to imagine that there might be something flexible enough to do the job? What do other people do to test their software?
holy crap what an amazing idea! automated software testing of web applications! you're the first to come with this, so pat yourself on the back and run to the USPTO to patent this excellent idea!!
next time how about browsing the web (google helps!) for 5 mins before posting this kind of Ask Slashdot question...
yea boy oh boy thats the one big thing i've been waiting for all this time!!! now i can edit TV shows just for FUN for me and my friends!! my edited versions of his show will light the Internet on FIRE!!! my dreams have come true!!
while back in reality... the only good that will come from this is that someone will most likely edit Mr.Cringley into a porno or something funny. i don't "get" the release of the "original raw footage".
The RAID 5 array of 120 MB disks I have is very nice, yielding a sweet 0.6 TByte of data thats one HELL of a lot of 120mb disks!!