I live in northern Michigan and just went and picked one up. My Mom heard me talk about how hard they were to get so she went to the store and bought 3 - that's all they would let her have at once. Rural areas (at least around here) seem to have single or even double digit inventory because people just don't realize what it is, or in my area are taking a bit hit financially and can't afford it. They are looking for Jobs, not Wiis.
1. Whitelist filter for domains of clients or employers 2. Move anything with HTTP or WWW, not on my contact list to spam folder 3. Delete anything from "*Business*Hosting*" (job spam)
I get about 200 to 300 a day. The above filters bring that down to the 5 or so that are for me without any text based filtering. I do occasionally run a cron script to use wget and pull down all their images non stop for a few days just to cost them bandwidth.
I do check my spam filtered emails at the end of the day and so far I've only found two messages that were for me in the past year. Strangers just don't seem to start off their email with an http link. That's for me - more public email addresses this won't work.
To be fair, the iPaq 1945 series with an earlier version of Windows Mobile was much, much better. I believe today nobody at Microsoft or HP actually uses PocketPCs. Everything has gone over to cellphones, leaving those of us who still need a non-phone PDA for whatever reason (generally, security policies) almost high and dry. I guess they have to follow the market, but I wish they would at least not advertise and ship stuff that doesn't work.
The iPaq 1945 used the PocketPC 2003 OS / Windows Mobile 2003 OS. This was the last version of PocketPC / Windows Mobile made that I would consider useful for instant on applications.
Starting with Windows Mobile 2005 and later Microsoft made a decision to protect users from losing their data if batteries fail at the expense of losing the "instant on" behavior I used to love. They did that by implementing something like hibernation mode on a laptop. Your data and running programs are always saved in slower NV ram and has to be loaded into the real ram every time you turn the PDA on. It's a bit more complicated then that but it's close enough.
Thanks for the advice. I'll have to try one of the corporate stores. I live in a town of about 5,000 people and there are no corporate stores here, only reseller after reseller. T-Mobile won't even let me purchase a phone with contract because it would be roaming full time where I live. Next time I go down state I'll see what I can do to pick up a SIM card direct from a "real" store.:)
That's the problem with patenting plants. Intention is a difficult thing to prove absolutely when you're talking about pollination. As we all learned from Jurrasic Park, DNA is a hard thing to control.
Something to consider if you get just do end up getting just a phone, you'll have a tough time getting just a sim card.
I've been unable to get just a sim card from any phone company in my area. The only solution I've been offered from phone companies in my area is to buy various no-contract phones, pull the card and throw the phone away or sell it. It's a bunch of crap, I know they have stacks of cards back there, they just don't have a "process" in place to sell me one.
This is probably one of the major reasons women in abusive relationships can't seem to break away from their abusers. The patterns of behavior become ingrained through this process.
One thing to remember is that men who abuse women are almost always NOT dominate / alpha males. My wife worked as a social worker for many years and I've had first hand experience with abusive guys. They abuse women because that allows them to have at least one person beneath them and work out their aggression at being such inferior guys themselves. That's also why most abusers commit suicide after they break and kill their ex's. They're too scared to go to prison.
Think back to Robert Heinlein - "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you"
Silverlight can be thought of as "Microsoft" Flash - except it's designed from the ground up for programmers instead of artists. It's got real code behind it, real error checking and exceptions.
From an artist standpoint Silverlight is kind of blah new and not that many tools for it. At least from the people I know who've tried using it to draw pictures. Macromedia could cut them off at the knees if they had a pluggable programming framework instead of using ECMAScript backend.
Flash is great for smaller projects, but it's so sloppy that maintaining large project starts to get harder as the codebase increases. If you make a typo you never know it, you just blindly call a non-existant function or property and you won't know it until things don't work right. Silverlight can avoid all this headache.
I think it's perfect. They summarized the GPL into a single sentence. Anyone who is going to use / distribute GPL software will run into the GPL in more detail. What's more annoying is that it's actually a decent article discussing Microsoft / Linux patent deals and somehow everyone is blathering on about how unhappy they are with a single sentence halfway through the article instead of perhaps... discussing the article itself.
The CBC is disucssing Microsoft and Linux in the same page and they sound like equals. This should be a Good Thing.
But some tiny fraction might survive mutated but fit to the new environment. They will be horrible beasts unable to survive anywhere else.
That's interesting. I know we've seen evidence that significant evolution can happen over several generations, such as with the russian dog foxes. The radiation is still relatively new to the environment and in a small area. I've always wondered at what point creatures change from being able to tolerate an environment to coming to depend on it. Animals in the Galapagos have adapted to life there, but I don't think there's anything that can ONLY live there.
It must happen at some point though amphibians stopped breathing water and stopped being amphibians. Can the bacteria that evolved to eat nylon which never existed before still eat other things too?
Do you know of any studies on environmental tolerance vs dependency in evolution?
Until we contaminate the rest of the planet, which their families will inherit instead of ours.
The last sentence seems a bit dramatic. Our families will probably be around, just as miserable as the other creatures but still there to inherit things if you call it that. I don't know if we'll just come to depend on lead in the water or minimum dailty doses of radiation, probably something more like having children as early as possible to increase our own survival rates.
I don't think it would be pleasant but people on the whole must be pretty resilient or we wouldn't be having this conversation.:o)
I used to be a palm user too. I've developed for handheld devices since Palm III and CE 2. Windows Mobile 5 was a big slow down compared to 2003. This was a design choice by microsoft to preserve data in the event of power loss instead of performance. I'm not saying it was a bad choice but it is why WM5 devices are slow to startup from sleep mode. Also WM5 power management shuts down the whole OS so there is a good chance your programs will wake up before the OS remounts the storage cards so you can never assume your previously opened file is still open.
In the end I deal the startup delay because I don't use the PIM functions much. I really just want a usable computer I can carry around with me. I would happily buy an iPhone full price if they removed the contract requirement and you could write your own software.
So, what about the millions of people who won't pay very close attention, and will type a bunch of stuff into Google Docs or whatever -- and fail to notice that their two-year-old unplugged the router? The web app keeps running and it indicates "App Offline" in the corner of the screen... they go to work and TEHOMG no document!
What then? At least right now it's all very clear: no internet, page doesn't load, check for the problem. Is it just me?
If you do your work offline it won't be available online. Unless you take your offline version with you - use portableapps and it's saved on your USB drive. The system can easily detect and warn you that it never got saved in offline mode when you shut down.
Now the real problem in this scenario appears to be someone who doesn't pay attention to their computer or children. Software can't help there, even from Google. I would suggest finding a baby sitter or giving the kid some higher powered cables to play with.;)
Agreed. Life better? Let's see, with Florida, much of California, Michigan, and many East Coast states, including much or all of New York City completely under water...
Actually Michigan and the Great Lakes will see a large increase in waterfront property because global warming makes the Great Lakes water levels decrease. When the lakes don't freeze in the winter they lose water all winter to evaporation that was normally protected by ice. There are some people suggesting this is why New Jersey and New York have had flooding recently.
It's already caused some problems with shipping in my area and a lot of marinas are being dredged because they are getting too shallow for some of the larger boats. Warmer water also means less oxygen content so there is a good change the type of animals living in the great lakes will change and fisheries will become more important then ever.
I just found the above text at the bottom of all/. pages. Read that again: all pages. Taking all the posts into account, that means there are probably limitless violations right on this site. In fact, I have to admit that this comment uses no technology from Media Rights Technologies to encrypt it. Perhaps I should have posted as an AC.
No, none of us are complicit because this page is already protected.
You may not have noticed but/. and most of the web are protected by DRM format called HTML and HTTP.
HTML wraps and encodes normal text and images you want your viewers to see and only people with the correct software decoder can then view your site.
HTTP is the network component which further delays would be criminals by forcing them to request all the content on a page using several requests to the same server, or possibly even different servers then manually recombine the decode and reformat text received according to arcane formatting rules.
Content owners can even use a third encryption format on top of all this called called CSS which can cause the text to be repositioned almost anywhere on the page, or even appear invisible or backwards.
All of the people, and I mean ALL (lets be fair now), that have nice Law Degrees from Ivy League schools should now be stripped of their license if they had a compromising photo...or any photo really in a public place.
My wife has kept a picture of some guy drinking while dressed up in a cow suit for exactly this reason. The guy sincerely thought he was going to be president one day and turned white when she said she would keep the picture just in case.
When you can SEE all the machines at once it's cost effective. It's all a matter of scale and for this many machines it's not necessary to have something running on all the machines to push out changes. Mainly though it's their money and they understand walking around and installing software. They don't understand pushing put changes via the network because they run a factory and the physical need to update things is just kind of built-in to their way of thinking. Hard to explain but the client is happy and it gets the job done cheaply.
I verified the numbers were correct then try to send a fax with a sign that says "STOP SENDING ME FAXES" to the voice number of the sales pitch using the most repeats and shortest delay possible. I remember distinctly hearing one of the operators start crying through the little fax speaker. Faxes stopped shortly after.
Remember it's the VOICE number in the FAX you want to attack.
Right - this was just a contract dispute between Kaleidoscope and the DVDCCA. Other DVD player manufacturers may have similar contracts, and could now build in DVD-ripping/storage, but you can be sure that the DVDCCA will be changing their contracts moving forward to eliminate this behavior in the future.
I'm sure Kaleidoscope hopes they do change the license to prevent storage in the future. They already have the machines developed and their agreement is already in place. It sounds like they may be one of the only licensee to not agree to the DVD backup clause. If the DVDCCA decides to prevent this type of thing from happening in the future they would just be placing a barrier to entry to future Kaleidoscope competitors.
I usually just roll my own install managers using AutoIt3. It's a nice little scripting utility, free and simple to use. When you get a working script you can compile it to an EXE. So take something like quicktime, put it and the controlling script into it's own directory. You launch the installer, wait for the windows to appear then send the keypresses to the installer. Remember to set focus before sending keys or clicks in case the user tries to alt-tab away. It's pretty quick and easy if you've got a bit of coding skill. I've also used NSIS to wrap installers and enter custom values for our default setups.
Just stick it on a USB drive walk around and stick / click / done.
The funniest part of all this is that I can do a complete server uninstall and re-install with about 3 mouse clicks and 10 minutes of watching screens fly by but the server guys still take upwards of an hour per machine to do the same thing. We have very different point-of-view. Job security for me is my ability to get stuff done correctly as quickly as possible. Job security for them seems to be always having something to do and a list of things not yet done.
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Perhaps the fL has been reached for this civilization.
N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL
(fL = the fraction of the planet's life during which the communicating civilizations survives)
http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/SETI/drake_equation.html
Oh... the JEDI are going to feel this one!
I live in northern Michigan and just went and picked one up. My Mom heard me talk about how hard they were to get so she went to the store and bought 3 - that's all they would let her have at once. Rural areas (at least around here) seem to have single or even double digit inventory because people just don't realize what it is, or in my area are taking a bit hit financially and can't afford it. They are looking for Jobs, not Wiis.
Personally I just use a few simple filters
1. Whitelist filter for domains of clients or employers
2. Move anything with HTTP or WWW, not on my contact list to spam folder
3. Delete anything from "*Business*Hosting*" (job spam)
I get about 200 to 300 a day. The above filters bring that down to the 5 or so that are for me without any text based filtering. I do occasionally run a cron script to use wget and pull down all their images non stop for a few days just to cost them bandwidth.
I do check my spam filtered emails at the end of the day and so far I've only found two messages that were for me in the past year. Strangers just don't seem to start off their email with an http link. That's for me - more public email addresses this won't work.
Starting with Windows Mobile 2005 and later Microsoft made a decision to protect users from losing their data if batteries fail at the expense of losing the "instant on" behavior I used to love. They did that by implementing something like hibernation mode on a laptop. Your data and running programs are always saved in slower NV ram and has to be loaded into the real ram every time you turn the PDA on. It's a bit more complicated then that but it's close enough.
Here's a post about it. As someone there stated if you knew how to keep the battery charged WM05/06 is a step backwards in terms of performance for increased battery life and risk of data loss.
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2005/07/14/438991.aspx
Thanks for the advice. I'll have to try one of the corporate stores. I live in a town of about 5,000 people and there are no corporate stores here, only reseller after reseller. T-Mobile won't even let me purchase a phone with contract because it would be roaming full time where I live. Next time I go down state I'll see what I can do to pick up a SIM card direct from a "real" store. :)
http://xkcd.com/87/
http://xkcd.com/135/
http://www.pitt.edu/~jrf27/cs1515/poster/jrf27.pd
Something to consider if you get just do end up getting just a phone, you'll have a tough time getting just a sim card.
I've been unable to get just a sim card from any phone company in my area. The only solution I've been offered from phone companies in my area is to buy various no-contract phones, pull the card and throw the phone away or sell it. It's a bunch of crap, I know they have stacks of cards back there, they just don't have a "process" in place to sell me one.
One thing to remember is that men who abuse women are almost always NOT dominate / alpha males. My wife worked as a social worker for many years and I've had first hand experience with abusive guys. They abuse women because that allows them to have at least one person beneath them and work out their aggression at being such inferior guys themselves. That's also why most abusers commit suicide after they break and kill their ex's. They're too scared to go to prison.
Think back to Robert Heinlein - "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you"
I think it's perfect. They summarized the GPL into a single sentence. Anyone who is going to use / distribute GPL software will run into the GPL in more detail. What's more annoying is that it's actually a decent article discussing Microsoft / Linux patent deals and somehow everyone is blathering on about how unhappy they are with a single sentence halfway through the article instead of perhaps... discussing the article itself.
The CBC is disucssing Microsoft and Linux in the same page and they sound like equals. This should be a Good Thing.
That's interesting. I know we've seen evidence that significant evolution can happen over several generations, such as with the russian dog foxes. The radiation is still relatively new to the environment and in a small area. I've always wondered at what point creatures change from being able to tolerate an environment to coming to depend on it. Animals in the Galapagos have adapted to life there, but I don't think there's anything that can ONLY live there.
It must happen at some point though amphibians stopped breathing water and stopped being amphibians. Can the bacteria that evolved to eat nylon which never existed before still eat other things too?
Do you know of any studies on environmental tolerance vs dependency in evolution?The last sentence seems a bit dramatic. Our families will probably be around, just as miserable as the other creatures but still there to inherit things if you call it that. I don't know if we'll just come to depend on lead in the water or minimum dailty doses of radiation, probably something more like having children as early as possible to increase our own survival rates.
I don't think it would be pleasant but people on the whole must be pretty resilient or we wouldn't be having this conversation.
I used to be a palm user too. I've developed for handheld devices since Palm III and CE 2. Windows Mobile 5 was a big slow down compared to 2003. This was a design choice by microsoft to preserve data in the event of power loss instead of performance. I'm not saying it was a bad choice but it is why WM5 devices are slow to startup from sleep mode. Also WM5 power management shuts down the whole OS so there is a good chance your programs will wake up before the OS remounts the storage cards so you can never assume your previously opened file is still open.
In the end I deal the startup delay because I don't use the PIM functions much. I really just want a usable computer I can carry around with me. I would happily buy an iPhone full price if they removed the contract requirement and you could write your own software.
Now the real problem in this scenario appears to be someone who doesn't pay attention to their computer or children. Software can't help there, even from Google. I would suggest finding a baby sitter or giving the kid some higher powered cables to play with.
Actually Michigan and the Great Lakes will see a large increase in waterfront property because global warming makes the Great Lakes water levels decrease. When the lakes don't freeze in the winter they lose water all winter to evaporation that was normally protected by ice. There are some people suggesting this is why New Jersey and New York have had flooding recently.
It's already caused some problems with shipping in my area and a lot of marinas are being dredged because they are getting too shallow for some of the larger boats. Warmer water also means less oxygen content so there is a good change the type of animals living in the great lakes will change and fisheries will become more important then ever.
You may not have noticed but
HTML wraps and encodes normal text and images you want your viewers to see and only people with the correct software decoder can then view your site.
HTTP is the network component which further delays would be criminals by forcing them to request all the content on a page using several requests to the same server, or possibly even different servers then manually recombine the decode and reformat text received according to arcane formatting rules.
Content owners can even use a third encryption format on top of all this called called CSS which can cause the text to be repositioned almost anywhere on the page, or even appear invisible or backwards.
As in drag it to the bottom of the sea and prevent it from moving forward?
When you can SEE all the machines at once it's cost effective. It's all a matter of scale and for this many machines it's not necessary to have something running on all the machines to push out changes. Mainly though it's their money and they understand walking around and installing software. They don't understand pushing put changes via the network because they run a factory and the physical need to update things is just kind of built-in to their way of thinking. Hard to explain but the client is happy and it gets the job done cheaply.
Funny Posts receive no Karma. Unlike this incredibly informative post. :D
See the last part of http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml#cm700 or check the source code.
I verified the numbers were correct then try to send a fax with a sign that says "STOP SENDING ME FAXES" to the voice number of the sales pitch using the most repeats and shortest delay possible. I remember distinctly hearing one of the operators start crying through the little fax speaker. Faxes stopped shortly after.
Remember it's the VOICE number in the FAX you want to attack.
I usually just roll my own install managers using AutoIt3. It's a nice little scripting utility, free and simple to use. When you get a working script you can compile it to an EXE. So take something like quicktime, put it and the controlling script into it's own directory. You launch the installer, wait for the windows to appear then send the keypresses to the installer. Remember to set focus before sending keys or clicks in case the user tries to alt-tab away. It's pretty quick and easy if you've got a bit of coding skill. I've also used NSIS to wrap installers and enter custom values for our default setups.
Just stick it on a USB drive walk around and stick / click / done.
The funniest part of all this is that I can do a complete server uninstall and re-install with about 3 mouse clicks and 10 minutes of watching screens fly by but the server guys still take upwards of an hour per machine to do the same thing. We have very different point-of-view. Job security for me is my ability to get stuff done correctly as quickly as possible. Job security for them seems to be always having something to do and a list of things not yet done.