once every 2 years this debate is put forth and a few articles are published about it. yet, floppy still stays and will stay.
floppy drives are just there for system recoveries, safe reboots and such.
Yes, for an ever shrinking group of users, the floppy will remain an important feature in the arsenal in the war against BIOS updates, crash recovery on antiquated hardware, RAID installations, etc.
For the rest of us that don't have to support machines running BIOSs without bootable options for USB, CD, network, etc; we'll be happy to rid ourselves of the discussion of floppies as "required".
I haven't used a floppy since 1997. Good riddance.
Well, I have Comcast cable and neither rebooting, nor powercycling the cable modem will get a new IP address. I think it is tied to the computer's MAC address. When we moved house, I got a new Cable account, a new cable modem and even then, I still got the same IP address at my new house (I think it was still ATTBI then).
You lease is tied to both MAC addresses but it will expire over time. If no one else is in line to nab the IP you are using when your lease expires and you restart/powercycle, you'll regain it.
All users? I don't think my cable IP address (dynamically assigned) has changed in over a year.
Comcast users usually don't see an IP change unless they powercycle their modem and restart their computer or router. When I was on ATTBI, my IP remained the same until we switched to Comcast's IP block.
Some DSL users constantly gain a new IP when their IP lease is up. It's unfortunate that DSL has gone this route as it used to be a guaranteed static IP.
But in general, this "statistic" means absolutely squat. No one is going to give a shit if 100 million people downloaded something -- Microsoft is what managers hear the most about and that's what they are generally inclined to want.
If it was more than 30-35K, this is only a cost of doing business.
I'm 100% sure that Cingular/AT&T makes more than that in one minute selling the usage stats and personal information of their customers. Why the fuck isn't the AG going after them for that opt-out "experience"?
After all, it dips into Uncle Sam's (in the U.S.) revenue, so they aren't motivated to make the approval and appeal process simple.
IANAL (I think this is the first time I've ever used that):
You're confusing two different things here. You can be a non-profit 501(c)(3) but not be tax-exempt. Does it serve any purpose to become a 501(c)(3) and not be tax-exempt? Well, for most groups probably not...
The process to become tax-exempt via the IRS is a bit of a pain in the ass and it involves some paperwork and *a lot* of waiting. Once you are a valid 501(c)(3) you submit a bunch of paperwork to the IRS (including your bylaws, income, etc) and then they do a quick scan of your paperwork and determine if you need to fix anything that you submitted. This took our organization about 6 weeks to hear back on. We had to clarify some things on the paperwork and mail it back in. Once we did that they held it for about 90 days and finally after some more work (following the 90 days) we were exempted.
Now, once you are federally you may be state exempt. You'll have to check your local laws for that but it worked out for the best in our case.
I mean, if you can't cope with the bureaucracy of registering as a non-profit, how are you going to cope with the bureaucracy of school management?
What's the difference if they do that or not? I'd rather have them be an unregistered social club that gets the job done than worry about being registered as a non-profit.
Unless they are looking to avoid paying taxes and sales taxes, there shouldn't be a real need for that anyway.
Was it a benefit? Don't know, never heard of it.
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Considering this is the first time I've heard of it, probably not as much as it should have been. Did it help SpamAssassin? If so, then yes, it was.
If it's yet another site that finally went by the wayside because no one was using it, maintaining it, or interested in it; then it might have already served its purpose and has been retired.
The Internet moves fast and new things come along all the time to replace those things that are outdated and old. Some might say that about digg and Slashdot though;)
Thank you! If I was able to get mod points (I haven't had them in years) I would put you through to +500.
Hillary has proven that she *only* talks ("Think of the children!"). If you think that she can "think of the children" and protect us all from the evils of the Internet while protecting our privacy at the same time, you're wrong.
The only way I would vote for her is if President GWB rewrote the books so that he could run for a third term and she was the only other option.
IMHO, you're better off skipping the satnav systems built specifically for car use and should instead invest in a handheld GPS unit from one of the other companies.
A color Garmin with autorouting will run you about $300 and is about $100 less than an similar TomTom unit. You won't get voice prompting (which I would turn off anyway -- using a laptop running Streets and Trips or any of the other route software with voice actuation is annoying for any city driving) and the screen won't be quite as large but I have always thought the interface was much better.
With a hand held GPS option you can easily remove it from you car without having to carry a bulky unit around. My GPS (a Garmin 76CS) will run for about 24 continuous hours on lithium batteries in normal temperature conditions (here in MN the cold can severely limit your battery life) or 2 or so days of normal driving. Obviously a car adapter is available but I don't like all the extra wires danging around.
Garmin has map updates frequently but they are pricey (still less than TomTom) at around $100. I have been using the same maps that were available back several years ago (2002) and they work pretty well for my use. Generally autorouting will get you where you want to go but it rarely takes the route that I (under "local knowledge" conditions) would consider optimal. No GPS is going to know what streets are less patrolled, have less traffic lights, and which generally have less traffic.
C'mon! Now if you didn't know what you were looking at before, now you know there's a target of interest there.
Like they wouldn't have known anyway. Someone who is researching the location of nuclear power plants would not need sat photos to find them. Even if they did, what the fuck is the difference if you can't see them at crappy resolution? They probably offer a tour and someone arriving there would do a fuckload more damage than someone looking at map online.
I don't know if you can access CurrentTV, but if you can make sure you sit down and watch a couple of pods. This is what he's talking about when he mentions that it's going to revolutionize TV. Viewer submitted content (that they're paying for) that appears on TV is amazing to watch.
You get a first hand account of newly reported news items but without the lame over-processed and practiced "Live Eyewitness News Reporter" feel. Some of the shit on CurrentTV blows my mind and some of it is viewer submitted advertising for products that you would have probably never heard about on the mainstream media.
Now, with archived content available online, we will finally get to see the Tubes be used for part of their potential.
It's a great starting point, but you can't trust the information completely. Use it to get you aimed in the right direction and then go from there.
Exactly and instead of "banning" it, they should simply educate their students to use proper research materials which would not include encyclopedias or any easily modifiable document, such as a wiki.
I use a program for doing long macros called SuperKeys. I have some pretty lengthy sequences for really routine tasks that I do 100s of time daily. This one program has nearly eliminated my carpal tunnel issues I had begun to develop because of the repetitive nature of some of the data entry I do daily.
Basically you can set whatever "modal" key you want (I tend to use % or *) and then have a string after that (such as %sqx) and it immediately begins to perform the macro. Works great for what I need.
The only thing that I would love to see (and I'm sure I could ask the developer but I don't know what he'd say) is CTRL-TAB support to move backwards through forms and to allow it to read data from a text file line by line and use them as part of the macro sequence.
If anyone has any idea of any other software that does what I have asked, please reply below.
Sheesh. When will people stop assuming their personal experiences aren't always universal?
Verbal taunting by other kids is *not* child abuse. It's verbal abuse but nothing more. Please do not cheapen the term "child abuse" by purposefully confusing the two.
Shouldn't they be stopping *real* bullying, where someone gets beat up, before they try to tackle "cyber" bullying?
No, they shouldn't unless it is physical. I dealt with a ton of taunting when I was in school. It took a toll on me but in the end I ended up being a much stronger and thick skinned individual for it. Petty non-sense in the workplace doesn't affect my job and my personal life like it seems to affect everyone else; I think that's a very important thing...
This type of "life lesson" either makes you crash emotionally under the pressures or you press through and end up ahead. If the kids are now moving to doing it on the Internet there's an even easier solution -- tune it out. The Internet is a ton easier to block out than verbal threats and taunts in person.
Personally, I think that the administrators should be concerning themselves with making certain that their systems are getting kids "college ready" so that they don't have to take remedial courses when they get to school and stop worrying about what's happening on MySpace and AIM.
What it means is that there are so many confusing issues surrounding what is legal and what isn't. To me, if I have a shiny sticker on my computer that tells me the Windows XP key that I got w/the computer, that means that I have a valid key. Microsoft has decided that this key isn't valid because of whatever reason and my WGA fails.
Do I bother to call MSFT and argue my case or do I use hacks available online to get around this shit?
In addition to what you have mentioned above, Wikipedia should not be given the weight it is in Google rankings, period. My Wikipedia user page should not show up as a top five return for a Google search of my name. It shouldn't show up at all simply because it's not as important as the other information out there on me.
The only reason the Wikipedia user entry exists is because Google does rank the pages *very* highly. Bleh.
The music industry cannot hope to stop the myriad of innovative ways of copying music and they are fooling themselves if they think they can make DRM "unbreakable." If this report is true, perhaps some in the industry are finally coming to their senses.
Regardless of what they say to the media and how the media regurgitates this to the public, the recording industry realizes that they can never have a full proof DRM method. What they do want to stop (and have so far succeeded) is getting the general public to purchase their music online rather than go through a pirating repository like torrenting, Napster-alikes, etc.
With the success of iTS, it's obvious that people are flocking to that instead -- DRM or not.
Yes, we can still get copies of our favorite music from TPB, torrentspy, etc but as long as the majority of people aren't doing it that way anymore the RIAA has succeeded in what it originally set out to do.
Actually it gives you time for the hardcore Macgeeks to research dropping their current carrier and switch to the inferior "Cingular" (or whatever they are being called now) while also preparing to put up with the shitty customer service and higher prices they charge.
I would prefer neither. I don't like guide books and I don't really like listening to audiobooks. I just got an audiobook as a present and I really can't stand it at all. For some reason I cannot get into the book while it's playing in the car (or anywhere for that matter) -- too many distractions. There is something about reading that really draws me into the novel that I can't seem to replicate with an audiobook.
As far as guidebooks go, I'm better doing some prior research and using Google Maps to waypoint places in my GPS to autoroute to when we go somewhere else. There is nothing better than doing it that way.
With a rollout in EU, and an anticipated 1M units sold by June here, what is the impact with the latest development whereby songs purchased for the Zune are not "squirtable" courtesy SONY's proscription? Is it really true about 50% of SONY songs purchased in the Microsoft way are not shareable with other Zune owners (if you can find them)?
I would guess that the sharing feature is not a show stopper for most people. The real question is whether or not the Zune will be priced under the iPod or any of the other "competitors". You have already mentioned the big reason why it's not a show stopper -- no one has a Zune anyway.
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Even if it did have content, I don't consider a Mobile processor a worthwhile CPU to benchmark anything against.
once every 2 years this debate is put forth and a few articles are published about it. yet, floppy still stays and will stay.
floppy drives are just there for system recoveries, safe reboots and such.
Yes, for an ever shrinking group of users, the floppy will remain an important feature in the arsenal in the war against BIOS updates, crash recovery on antiquated hardware, RAID installations, etc.
For the rest of us that don't have to support machines running BIOSs without bootable options for USB, CD, network, etc; we'll be happy to rid ourselves of the discussion of floppies as "required".
I haven't used a floppy since 1997. Good riddance.
Well, I have Comcast cable and neither rebooting, nor powercycling the cable modem will get a new IP address. I think it is tied to the computer's MAC address. When we moved house, I got a new Cable account, a new cable modem and even then, I still got the same IP address at my new house (I think it was still ATTBI then).
You lease is tied to both MAC addresses but it will expire over time. If no one else is in line to nab the IP you are using when your lease expires and you restart/powercycle, you'll regain it.
All users? I don't think my cable IP address (dynamically assigned) has changed in over a year.
Comcast users usually don't see an IP change unless they powercycle their modem and restart their computer or router. When I was on ATTBI, my IP remained the same until we switched to Comcast's IP block.
Some DSL users constantly gain a new IP when their IP lease is up. It's unfortunate that DSL has gone this route as it used to be a guaranteed static IP.
But in general, this "statistic" means absolutely squat. No one is going to give a shit if 100 million people downloaded something -- Microsoft is what managers hear the most about and that's what they are generally inclined to want.
If it was more than 30-35K, this is only a cost of doing business.
I'm 100% sure that Cingular/AT&T makes more than that in one minute selling the usage stats and personal information of their customers. Why the fuck isn't the AG going after them for that opt-out "experience"?
After all, it dips into Uncle Sam's (in the U.S.) revenue, so they aren't motivated to make the approval and appeal process simple.
IANAL (I think this is the first time I've ever used that):
You're confusing two different things here. You can be a non-profit 501(c)(3) but not be tax-exempt. Does it serve any purpose to become a 501(c)(3) and not be tax-exempt? Well, for most groups probably not...
The process to become tax-exempt via the IRS is a bit of a pain in the ass and it involves some paperwork and *a lot* of waiting. Once you are a valid 501(c)(3) you submit a bunch of paperwork to the IRS (including your bylaws, income, etc) and then they do a quick scan of your paperwork and determine if you need to fix anything that you submitted. This took our organization about 6 weeks to hear back on. We had to clarify some things on the paperwork and mail it back in. Once we did that they held it for about 90 days and finally after some more work (following the 90 days) we were exempted.
Now, once you are federally you may be state exempt. You'll have to check your local laws for that but it worked out for the best in our case.
I mean, if you can't cope with the bureaucracy of registering as a non-profit, how are you going to cope with the bureaucracy of school management?
What's the difference if they do that or not? I'd rather have them be an unregistered social club that gets the job done than worry about being registered as a non-profit.
Unless they are looking to avoid paying taxes and sales taxes, there shouldn't be a real need for that anyway.
Considering this is the first time I've heard of it, probably not as much as it should have been. Did it help SpamAssassin? If so, then yes, it was.
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If it's yet another site that finally went by the wayside because no one was using it, maintaining it, or interested in it; then it might have already served its purpose and has been retired.
The Internet moves fast and new things come along all the time to replace those things that are outdated and old. Some might say that about digg and Slashdot though
Thank you! If I was able to get mod points (I haven't had them in years) I would put you through to +500.
Hillary has proven that she *only* talks ("Think of the children!"). If you think that she can "think of the children" and protect us all from the evils of the Internet while protecting our privacy at the same time, you're wrong.
The only way I would vote for her is if President GWB rewrote the books so that he could run for a third term and she was the only other option.
IMHO, you're better off skipping the satnav systems built specifically for car use and should instead invest in a handheld GPS unit from one of the other companies.
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A color Garmin with autorouting will run you about $300 and is about $100 less than an similar TomTom unit. You won't get voice prompting (which I would turn off anyway -- using a laptop running Streets and Trips or any of the other route software with voice actuation is annoying for any city driving) and the screen won't be quite as large but I have always thought the interface was much better.
With a hand held GPS option you can easily remove it from you car without having to carry a bulky unit around. My GPS (a Garmin 76CS) will run for about 24 continuous hours on lithium batteries in normal temperature conditions (here in MN the cold can severely limit your battery life) or 2 or so days of normal driving. Obviously a car adapter is available but I don't like all the extra wires danging around.
Garmin has map updates frequently but they are pricey (still less than TomTom) at around $100. I have been using the same maps that were available back several years ago (2002) and they work pretty well for my use. Generally autorouting will get you where you want to go but it rarely takes the route that I (under "local knowledge" conditions) would consider optimal. No GPS is going to know what streets are less patrolled, have less traffic lights, and which generally have less traffic.
Just my
C'mon! Now if you didn't know what you were looking at before, now you know there's a target of interest there.
Like they wouldn't have known anyway. Someone who is researching the location of nuclear power plants would not need sat photos to find them. Even if they did, what the fuck is the difference if you can't see them at crappy resolution? They probably offer a tour and someone arriving there would do a fuckload more damage than someone looking at map online.
most TV shows will still be craps
I don't know if you can access CurrentTV, but if you can make sure you sit down and watch a couple of pods. This is what he's talking about when he mentions that it's going to revolutionize TV. Viewer submitted content (that they're paying for) that appears on TV is amazing to watch.
You get a first hand account of newly reported news items but without the lame over-processed and practiced "Live Eyewitness News Reporter" feel. Some of the shit on CurrentTV blows my mind and some of it is viewer submitted advertising for products that you would have probably never heard about on the mainstream media.
Now, with archived content available online, we will finally get to see the Tubes be used for part of their potential.
With 99.9% of South Koreans "shackled" to Windows and "sitting behind fat pipes", why are we surprised?
.kr. It wouldn't surprise me at all if 99.5% of them were infected over there.
I keep banning new IP ranges originating from
It's a great starting point, but you can't trust the information completely. Use it to get you aimed in the right direction and then go from there.
Exactly and instead of "banning" it, they should simply educate their students to use proper research materials which would not include encyclopedias or any easily modifiable document, such as a wiki.
Thank you, I've been looking for something that was Open but somehow wasn't able to find anything acceptable. I'll give this a try!
I use a program for doing long macros called SuperKeys. I have some pretty lengthy sequences for really routine tasks that I do 100s of time daily. This one program has nearly eliminated my carpal tunnel issues I had begun to develop because of the repetitive nature of some of the data entry I do daily.
Basically you can set whatever "modal" key you want (I tend to use % or *) and then have a string after that (such as %sqx) and it immediately begins to perform the macro. Works great for what I need.
The only thing that I would love to see (and I'm sure I could ask the developer but I don't know what he'd say) is CTRL-TAB support to move backwards through forms and to allow it to read data from a text file line by line and use them as part of the macro sequence.
If anyone has any idea of any other software that does what I have asked, please reply below.
Sheesh. When will people stop assuming their personal experiences aren't always universal?
Verbal taunting by other kids is *not* child abuse. It's verbal abuse but nothing more. Please do not cheapen the term "child abuse" by purposefully confusing the two.
Shouldn't they be stopping *real* bullying, where someone gets beat up, before they try to tackle "cyber" bullying?
No, they shouldn't unless it is physical. I dealt with a ton of taunting when I was in school. It took a toll on me but in the end I ended up being a much stronger and thick skinned individual for it. Petty non-sense in the workplace doesn't affect my job and my personal life like it seems to affect everyone else; I think that's a very important thing...
This type of "life lesson" either makes you crash emotionally under the pressures or you press through and end up ahead. If the kids are now moving to doing it on the Internet there's an even easier solution -- tune it out. The Internet is a ton easier to block out than verbal threats and taunts in person.
Personally, I think that the administrators should be concerning themselves with making certain that their systems are getting kids "college ready" so that they don't have to take remedial courses when they get to school and stop worrying about what's happening on MySpace and AIM.
What it means is that there are so many confusing issues surrounding what is legal and what isn't. To me, if I have a shiny sticker on my computer that tells me the Windows XP key that I got w/the computer, that means that I have a valid key. Microsoft has decided that this key isn't valid because of whatever reason and my WGA fails.
Do I bother to call MSFT and argue my case or do I use hacks available online to get around this shit?
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah but I heard their burgers taste like enlarged cock. Ewww.
In addition to what you have mentioned above, Wikipedia should not be given the weight it is in Google rankings, period. My Wikipedia user page should not show up as a top five return for a Google search of my name. It shouldn't show up at all simply because it's not as important as the other information out there on me.
The only reason the Wikipedia user entry exists is because Google does rank the pages *very* highly. Bleh.
The music industry cannot hope to stop the myriad of innovative ways of copying music and they are fooling themselves if they think they can make DRM "unbreakable." If this report is true, perhaps some in the industry are finally coming to their senses.
Regardless of what they say to the media and how the media regurgitates this to the public, the recording industry realizes that they can never have a full proof DRM method. What they do want to stop (and have so far succeeded) is getting the general public to purchase their music online rather than go through a pirating repository like torrenting, Napster-alikes, etc.
With the success of iTS, it's obvious that people are flocking to that instead -- DRM or not.
Yes, we can still get copies of our favorite music from TPB, torrentspy, etc but as long as the majority of people aren't doing it that way anymore the RIAA has succeeded in what it originally set out to do.
Actually it gives you time for the hardcore Macgeeks to research dropping their current carrier and switch to the inferior "Cingular" (or whatever they are being called now) while also preparing to put up with the shitty customer service and higher prices they charge.
I would prefer neither. I don't like guide books and I don't really like listening to audiobooks. I just got an audiobook as a present and I really can't stand it at all. For some reason I cannot get into the book while it's playing in the car (or anywhere for that matter) -- too many distractions. There is something about reading that really draws me into the novel that I can't seem to replicate with an audiobook.
As far as guidebooks go, I'm better doing some prior research and using Google Maps to waypoint places in my GPS to autoroute to when we go somewhere else. There is nothing better than doing it that way.
With a rollout in EU, and an anticipated 1M units sold by June here, what is the impact with the latest development whereby songs purchased for the Zune are not "squirtable" courtesy SONY's proscription? Is it really true about 50% of SONY songs purchased in the Microsoft way are not shareable with other Zune owners (if you can find them)?
I would guess that the sharing feature is not a show stopper for most people. The real question is whether or not the Zune will be priced under the iPod or any of the other "competitors". You have already mentioned the big reason why it's not a show stopper -- no one has a Zune anyway.