"That said, some of the tools the software provides do look like being tailored towards the bulk advertising market...but they too also have some legitimate use..."
Spam is UNSOLICITED emails, selling stuff or pushing points of view (I consider religious and political soam too). The company I work for sends out several hundred thousand emails a day to dozens or hundreds of mailing lists, using software much like this. Are they spammers? No, they are just a huge company with a lot of lists you can subscribe to.
Managing contact lists was the first problem I ran into when I had a small business.... and something like this takes the hassle out of managing lists.
""This poor guy invented optical storage (CDs, DVDs) and never made a dime. Another case of an idea before its time and cheating a man of his due."
Uh, save the pity party... This isn't like the guy with the intermittent wiper technology that the auto makers ripped off. He was ON SALARY and his employer financed his research!
Like all employees, he probably had an employment agreement where he assigned patents to the employer, and maybe even got bonuses for each patent. If so, he was not eligible for a cut of the settlement, because he had already assigned the rights.
I'm a contract worker. I habitually carry a CD of various freeware and OSS apps from job to job, using those that are needed, or will look for FOSS tools when a special need arises. I usually leave a lot of OSS apps behind, and managed to convert one business to Linux. (Tux be praised, they saw the light!)
I was hired to work for a small manufacturing company... the accounting guy wanted me to give him a list of the software I would need for the job (writing their tech manuals). The only thing I REALLY needed was a photo editor, so I listed the GIMP. He was dubious, but PhotoSHop was $700, so he humored me. Pictures looked great.
A while later, I needed some vector drawings, so I had him get OpenOffice for the draw module... again he was dubious, but the drawings were nice. The design boss asked me if OO could read MSFT office things. They had a constant version problem between their various users. I showed him it could... showed him Mozilla, etc. He left with a copy of OO to test out.
Next thing I knew, the accountant and sysop (same guy) was chatting with me about the feasibility of upgrading all the users to Open Office and Mozilla, maybe on Linux so he could do remote admin and have fewer viruses. His sticking point was the lack of accounting software... Compiere could be customized for less than they were paying to Peachtree, and did shop floor control to boot. He started by converting everyone to OO and Mozilla, then did the file servers, then the desktops... nobody cared as long as they could find their files and do their work.
Also, every OO install out there means one less MSFT Office purchase... slows the revenue stream.
Collapse but don't often kill, because the materials aren't very heavy. Of course, sheet metal in a hurricane becomes flying knife-blades.
"Remember the town that was buried in ash from a volcano? Many of the buildings remained intact"
Pompeii and Herculanum? Roofless, stone walls, with ash-preserved traces of bodies surviveed, but the people were already dead because of the toxic gases. The roofs collapsed from the weight of the ash.
I'm using an Epson 2400 to scan various negatives and slides. I'm using Windows 2000 and the latest Epson driver from their site. It's SLOW!!!!!
To be harshly realistic, even the highest resolution scans are lower quality than they would be if I had a $500 dedicated film or slide scanner, and everything requires some color correction, but these are headed for the web, or casual printing, not publication in any sort of consumer magazine. As placeholders and comping they would be useful.
Make sure you are scanning with the correct side of the film towards the camera.
Make sure the film and scanner glass is clean
Edit the collection with a slide projector and get rid of the ones that start out blurry.
Make sure the slide holder is installed right.
Take the time to make sure the focal length of the scanner (they have one, it's just real short) matches the plane the slides are in.
"the dwellings these indigenous people have been using since the beginning of their civilization will work just fine."
Ever seen what happens to the traditional adobe house when an earthquake hits? That's why the death toll in the mid-East quakes is so high. The Cal-Earth design won't turn into dust and dump the roof onto the sleeping kids.
Vets in cities that have universities that do this kind of research get regular requests to refer certain problems to the University research clinic studies.
I took a kitten with an eye infection (of the rare, hard to treat, and sight-threatening kind) to the vet and the kitty ended up being the first in the state to be cured with a new drug they were testing. It had been animal-tested (in rabbits), approved for humans, proved in humans, and was making full-circle to being tested in various other species.
When you are preparing blood for freezing (long term storage of rare types) or freezing cell cultures, or sperm and probably even embryos, the cells are mixed in with PEG because it stabilizes the cell memnranes.
It's not much of a leap to go from this to trying in in live animals.
"Most business customers are not developers. They are no more able to benefit from open source than the average person would benefit from a set of engineering blueprints of their dishwasher."
If I had the engineering plans for my dishwasher, I could FIX it when it broke. Or I could hire someone who could read the plans and have them fix it or modify it for me. If it was in a sealed module, I'd have to.... buy another one!
From what I have read, cats are "secreters", which means some of their blood antigens are not only produced on the blood cells, but also produced by the salivary glands and excreted in their saliva. Saliva can be a potent allergen. Now that the gene is identified, they can make a "knock-out" cat that doesn't have the secreter gene.
Humans have a similar gene and those that are not "secreters" are just as healthy as those that are.
"so what's up with the law enforcement crap? The background check? The comparing you to a list of POSSIBLE people of "interest"? How does that have anything to do with identifying your corpse in the very very rare instance that a plane crashes?"
I was addressing the ID requirement, as someone was puzzled that it had been instituted in 1996 before the "Patriot Act (FYI, Libya blew up a plane over Scotland in 1988). These other things you mention
"as long as each passenger is properly screened for weapons"... define weapons. I can kill someone with a ball-point pen, incapacitate them with my arthritis linament, and strangle them with my support stockings. Travelling nude is no protection, although I would have to resort to strangling and neck-breaking.
"The requirement to show ID for flying on commercial passenger flights started in 1996, in response to the crash of TWA Flight 800. This crash was very likely caused by a mechanical failure. How showing ID to board a plane prevents mechanical failures is left as an exercise to the reader."
There was confusion about exactly who was on that plane... if you don't have a complete accurate passenger list, it's hard to get the usual ID tools like dental records, DNA samples from relatives, and photos.
" Why the heck would any criminal already subjected to that system, actually stay in Arizona?"
Maybe because the majority of his inmates are not convicted criminals, but are waiting trial, waiting for their arraignment hearing, etc. I don't know what % of them are found innocent or turned lose when an alibi is verified, but he's mistreating a lot of persons with his attitude of if you are arrested you must be scum.
They were NOT convicted, just being booked after being arrested. There's a world of difference.
there's the "treated as innocent until proven guilty" part of US tradition that you seem to be overlooking: if you were booked because you matched the description of a bank robber, would you want your booking to be shown to the world? Especially when your release when your fingerprints didn't match those at the scene took place off-camera?
"It's clear that most of his activities don't meet the "cruel and unusual punishment" constitutional test- even if they do work to deter crime."
News flash - they DO NOT deter crime. His much publicised tactics had less to do with crime than the booming economy did. The chain gangs, pink underwear and hired thugs for jail staff didn't do diddley squat when the dot com bubble burst and jobs started getting scarce.
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"The San Francisco-based U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed on Friday a lower court decision and ruled against the online venture of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The sheriff had argued that Webcasts deterred crime and showed the public how jails work."
Arpaio never met a reporter he didn't like, nor a PR stunt he wouldn't pull. Local opinion is that he's not a sheriff, he just plays one on TV.
His jailhouse tactics have cost the county millions in legal fees and settlements, and he is accused at the moment of having set up a squad of detectives to harass political opposition (in AZ, a county sheriff is an elected official).
There needs to be some way to double check the citations, or rate the sources of the cites, or those who like to pad their papers and make up scientific-sounding stuff for websites will have a good time with this. Too good, and it will be full of bogus references to Timmy's article on Cold Fusion.
Several factors can all affect your sleep schedule - much of it is lifestyle.
Diet - so cut back on the junk food and eat more fresh friuts and veggies
Caffiene - cut back on this (paradoxically, caffiene relaxes a few people)
Exercise - too little, or too much close to bedtime, can make you less likely to sleep. Regular moderate exercise helps almost anyone. Regular sex helps too!;)
Light - Artificial light can screw up your diurnal cycle. Minimize exposure to bright lights in the early evening for a while.
Schedule: sleep runs in about a 90-minute cycle for most people. If you lay down at the right point in the sleepiness cycle, you usually doze off. If you wake up and can't get back to sleep, get out of bed and read until you start to feel sleepy and try again.
REMEDIES OF THE CHEMICAL KIND:)
Linden flower tea, taken an hour or so before you want to fall asleep.
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Spam is UNSOLICITED emails, selling stuff or pushing points of view (I consider religious and political soam too). The company I work for sends out several hundred thousand emails a day to dozens or hundreds of mailing lists, using software much like this. Are they spammers? No, they are just a huge company with a lot of lists you can subscribe to.
Managing contact lists was the first problem I ran into when I had a small business .... and something like this takes the hassle out of managing lists.
""This poor guy invented optical storage (CDs, DVDs) and never made a dime. Another case of an idea before its time and cheating a man of his due."
Uh, save the pity party ... This isn't like the guy with the intermittent wiper technology that the auto makers ripped off. He was ON SALARY and his employer financed his research!
Like all employees, he probably had an employment agreement where he assigned patents to the employer, and maybe even got bonuses for each patent. If so, he was not eligible for a cut of the settlement, because he had already assigned the rights.
Hey guys ... Intel has been working on that rehab for quite a while. It's not in response to AMD's anything, it's just part of the plan.
I'm a contract worker. I habitually carry a CD of various freeware and OSS apps from job to job, using those that are needed, or will look for FOSS tools when a special need arises. I usually leave a lot of OSS apps behind, and managed to convert one business to Linux. (Tux be praised, they saw the light!)
I was hired to work for a small manufacturing company ... the accounting guy wanted me to give him a list of the software I would need for the job (writing their tech manuals). The only thing I REALLY needed was a photo editor, so I listed the GIMP. He was dubious, but PhotoSHop was $700, so he humored me. Pictures looked great.
A while later, I needed some vector drawings, so I had him get OpenOffice for the draw module ... again he was dubious, but the drawings were nice. The design boss asked me if OO could read MSFT office things. They had a constant version problem between their various users. I showed him it could ... showed him Mozilla, etc. He left with a copy of OO to test out.
Next thing I knew, the accountant and sysop (same guy) was chatting with me about the feasibility of upgrading all the users to Open Office and Mozilla, maybe on Linux so he could do remote admin and have fewer viruses. His sticking point was the lack of accounting software ... Compiere could be customized for less than they were paying to Peachtree, and did shop floor control to boot. He started by converting everyone to OO and Mozilla, then did the file servers, then the desktops ... nobody cared as long as they could find their files and do their work.
Also, every OO install out there means one less MSFT Office purchase ... slows the revenue stream.
Me too ... and it's enough to make me figure out how to hack the copy protection so I can get JUST the movie and not the inane previews.
Collapse but don't often kill, because the materials aren't very heavy. Of course, sheet metal in a hurricane becomes flying knife-blades.
"Remember the town that was buried in ash from a volcano? Many of the buildings remained intact"
Pompeii and Herculanum? Roofless, stone walls, with ash-preserved traces of bodies surviveed, but the people were already dead because of the toxic gases. The roofs collapsed from the weight of the ash.
To be harshly realistic, even the highest resolution scans are lower quality than they would be if I had a $500 dedicated film or slide scanner, and everything requires some color correction, but these are headed for the web, or casual printing, not publication in any sort of consumer magazine. As placeholders and comping they would be useful.
Ever seen what happens to the traditional adobe house when an earthquake hits? That's why the death toll in the mid-East quakes is so high. The Cal-Earth design won't turn into dust and dump the roof onto the sleeping kids.
I took a kitten with an eye infection (of the rare, hard to treat, and sight-threatening kind) to the vet and the kitty ended up being the first in the state to be cured with a new drug they were testing. It had been animal-tested (in rabbits), approved for humans, proved in humans, and was making full-circle to being tested in various other species.
It's not much of a leap to go from this to trying in in live animals.
I think you'd be more enthused if it were a beer can house. You could use JOLT cans.
If I had the engineering plans for my dishwasher, I could FIX it when it broke. Or I could hire someone who could read the plans and have them fix it or modify it for me. If it was in a sealed module, I'd have to .... buy another one!
Those things would be like mobile ovens here in the summer, and probably deep freezes in the winter in Minnesota.
Did anyone notice any climate control information?
From what I have read, cats are "secreters", which means some of their blood antigens are not only produced on the blood cells, but also produced by the salivary glands and excreted in their saliva. Saliva can be a potent allergen. Now that the gene is identified, they can make a "knock-out" cat that doesn't have the secreter gene.
Humans have a similar gene and those that are not "secreters" are just as healthy as those that are.
Easy to prevent - sell only neutered kittens. They can be neutered at a very early age.
When will there be cleaningforengineers.com?
I was addressing the ID requirement, as someone was puzzled that it had been instituted in 1996 before the "Patriot Act (FYI, Libya blew up a plane over Scotland in 1988). These other things you mention
"as long as each passenger is properly screened for weapons" ... define weapons. I can kill someone with a ball-point pen, incapacitate them with my arthritis linament, and strangle them with my support stockings. Travelling nude is no protection, although I would have to resort to strangling and neck-breaking.
"The requirement to show ID for flying on commercial passenger flights started in 1996, in response to the crash of TWA Flight 800. This crash was very likely caused by a mechanical failure. How showing ID to board a plane prevents mechanical failures is left as an exercise to the reader."
There was confusion about exactly who was on that plane ... if you don't have a complete accurate passenger list, it's hard to get the usual ID tools like dental records, DNA samples from relatives, and photos.
Maybe because the majority of his inmates are not convicted criminals, but are waiting trial, waiting for their arraignment hearing, etc. I don't know what % of them are found innocent or turned lose when an alibi is verified, but he's mistreating a lot of persons with his attitude of if you are arrested you must be scum.
there's the "treated as innocent until proven guilty" part of US tradition that you seem to be overlooking: if you were booked because you matched the description of a bank robber, would you want your booking to be shown to the world? Especially when your release when your fingerprints didn't match those at the scene took place off-camera?
News flash - they DO NOT deter crime. His much publicised tactics had less to do with crime than the booming economy did. The chain gangs, pink underwear and hired thugs for jail staff didn't do diddley squat when the dot com bubble burst and jobs started getting scarce.
Arpaio never met a reporter he didn't like, nor a PR stunt he wouldn't pull. Local opinion is that he's not a sheriff, he just plays one on TV.
His jailhouse tactics have cost the county millions in legal fees and settlements, and he is accused at the moment of having set up a squad of detectives to harass political opposition (in AZ, a county sheriff is an elected official).
There needs to be some way to double check the citations, or rate the sources of the cites, or those who like to pad their papers and make up scientific-sounding stuff for websites will have a good time with this. Too good, and it will be full of bogus references to Timmy's article on Cold Fusion.
Diet - so cut back on the junk food and eat more fresh friuts and veggies
Caffiene - cut back on this (paradoxically, caffiene relaxes a few people)
Exercise - too little, or too much close to bedtime, can make you less likely to sleep. Regular moderate exercise helps almost anyone. Regular sex helps too! ;)
Light - Artificial light can screw up your diurnal cycle. Minimize exposure to bright lights in the early evening for a while.
Schedule: sleep runs in about a 90-minute cycle for most people. If you lay down at the right point in the sleepiness cycle, you usually doze off. If you wake up and can't get back to sleep, get out of bed and read until you start to feel sleepy and try again.
REMEDIES OF THE CHEMICAL KIND :)
Linden flower tea, taken an hour or so before you want to fall asleep.
Replying to my own post: ANY of the MS Office programs could have this vulnerability ... Even PowerPoint.