In fact, this is true. The best way to keep notes and lists is with a giant document with a plain old no-frills text editor. No worries about compatibility or flexibility, easy to search and many people agree that it's faster and less trouble than going with a complex application.
I eventually wanted something that I could add files to, set up categories with and be very dynamic and upgradable and modifiable. So I installed a wiki. Personally, I chose TWiki (twiki.org) because it's done with perl and has a lot of pre-written plugins. I love it.
ATITD isn't about playing against other players. You're all - the entire society - working toward a common goal of progression and social, scientific, technological and spiritual evolution. You can join weeks into the game and be "caught up".
If we already fingerprint criminals, what's the big deal if we take a "biological footprint", if you will, of them?
Um... Because a criminal is someone that is charged with a crime, arrested, has evidence presented against him by a state prosecutor, has his defense presented by a defense attorney, then has a judge and a jury decide that he is guilty and sentence him.
An arrested person is just someone a copy has stuck handcuffs on for any number of valid or often invalid reasons.
I knew someone who was arrested for suspicion of counterfeitting currency and was released later in the day when they realized he just physically resembled the person they were after. Does this upstanding, hardworking, nice guy deserve to have a DNA sample taken and stored as potential evidence in an as of yet unoccurring, presumed future crime merely for an hour in jail due to mistaken identity?
Do you comprehend the idea of "innocent until proven guilty"?
If you are taking someone's DNA sample today, even though they are not guilty of anything, with the intention of using it against them later to match against data commited from a crime in the future, you are automatically presuming their guilty today which is directly against the fundamental premise of our legal system.
Do police departments remove your fingerprints from their posession if you are not convicted of a crime? I've always wondered this. I'm sure that, even if they claimed to, they wouldn't really do it. After all, even with minors, they don't erase their records. They are merely sealed. Same goes for adoption records. Getting a government agency to give up evidence or information or records probably is a lot like getting them to cut spending and give you back some of your tax money. Unheard of.
But the climate is still the same. I spent almost a year in the Bay Area and, except for the Palm trees, it was just like home. It even snowed once - which rarely happens in Portland.
Portland has the highest unemployment rate (and has for awhile now) in the country. However, we also have a minimum wage that is something like $7.50/hr.
Fortunately, my employer is in the Bay Area and I telecommute from Portland so my employment is not at all dependant on the local economy. In fact, the worse the local economy does, the more power my dollars from California have.:)
Yeah, I was surprised the first time I was in the Bay Area and the person I was riding with got out at the gas station to pump their own gas. In Portland, it's not just that you don't have to pump your own gas -- you aren't allowed to pump your own gas.
Our property taxes suck, but I still like the fact that when I buy $2,500 in computer parts, I don't have to spend another $250 just to satisfy the state revenue division.
By "children's parade", do you mean the "Starlight Parade" - which is the second largest night time parade on the west coast, which is the prelude to the Rose Festival which is the largest parade on the west coast?
Just to clarify, the "whole neighborhood" didn't turn out for the Starlight Parade. The Starlight Parade draws between 350,000 and 400,000 people. A bit more than a little neighborhood parade.
Linus should check out the best talk show in the northwest, too: RickEmerson.com.
We also have the dragon boat races, japanese rose gardens, chinese garden, are mad about bicycling and mass transit and are home to The Worlds Largest Book Store.
Well, it seems to be big enough news for KATU news which is your standard non-geek every-day news outlet in a major metropolitan city. How much news on slashdot is "very important" and "will affect things"? Maybe five percent? Get a grip.
First off, yes the weather is dreary for at least two thirds of the year. Some of us prefer that. Not everyone wants San Diego style weather and Portland is probably more familiar to someone from Finland than most of California, too (although the Bay Area is a bit like Portland as far as weather most of the year).
Second, the cost of housing is cheaper than in the bay area, but still in the top ten or fifteen most expensive in the country.
I wouldn't leave here for anything. I lived in the Bay Area. Didn't like it one bit.
You refuse to patch pirated copies of your product so that those users continue to plague the networks. This causes continued news stories and attention on the problem of viruses and security.
However, the attention will not be on "Microsoft sucks", but "Microsoft has fixed these problems but evil pirates are responsible for continuing the problem". Microsoft pushes pirates == security risks to gain greater government favor in their anti-piracy efforts.
DC does have these. I've seen it reported on TechTV, FOX News and CNN. A number of other cities have these two. I've probably heard half a dozen just on television reports alone.
Game comes out on Xbox in 2000. Game comes out on PC in 2003. Game comes out on Linux in 2006.
I don't play a whole lot of video games, but I keep a high-end windows box around just for them. I really don't want to be the last guy on earth to get to play a cool game just because most aren't put out for Linux at the same time (except for UT2K4 and a few others!).
If it weren't for the games, I'd finally rid myself of Windows entirely and I'm sure many others feel the same.
Unfortunately, donations don't always work. I run an auction site that has been around for many years and has quite a few users. However, the donations aren't even enough to keep up with the monthly expenses (which aren't a whole lot really).
You can't expect people to give money that they don't have, but it's still a difficult situation when people want your site to stay around and make frequent use of it (and it is based on monetary transactions between other users to begin with), but you're stuck paying for it out of pocket.
Personally, I've had a "no advertising" policy that I've held strictly to for more than five years. Nothing even resembling any type of advertising has ever plagued a single inch of my site. But upon investigation, a number of users commented that "hey, now that you mention it this site DOESN'T have any advertising or banners on it... I never noticed that before!".
Here I thought I was sticking to some lofty non-commercial "back to the old internet" goal by not accepting advertising or anything only to find out that the average internet user doesn't even notice when a site does not have ads.
The disapointing part of it is that sites like this can't continue once the main/only source of income (the admin/owner) loses their job. You can't pay out of pocket when those pockets are empty.
When it comes to software rather than websites... I think the best thing you can do is offer two versions for non and paying users or just ask for donations. If you stick ads in them, people will also suspect spyware and they will find ways to get rid of your ads on their end. It will drive a lot of people away to alternatives that are ad-free. I know that I am more likely to toss a few bucks at authors of software that I like when they have strong anti-ad/invasion practices from the beginning.
Listening to music is not at all like watching a movie. Unlike a movie, you aren't following a plot line and a story and while you can tire of a song or album, it's more from repetition than simply knowing every work in the script.
You can quote an entire movie line by line and I'm the moron. Christ...
In Oregon, you also have the option of EasyStreet which specifically declares it acceptable to share your connection as long as it isn't completely open-ended (in other words, you need to password your access). They're also very linux and open-source friendly and are a great company.
I used them for almost three years, until I got tired of paying $90/mo to them and $80/mo to Qwest for the physical line to get 640k/640k when I could get 3.5mbps/256k through Comcast (yeah, I don't like them either) for only $60/mo.
They're very knowleldgable and don't have a problem with running your own servers for non-business purposes.
I don't like to pimp advertising but they were a really great and unique ISP and if anyone needs DSL service in this area, I'd strongly reccommend them.
That sucks. Either way, she still made the trip so it's not like it's a hoax in the same way that giant foot long 30mph camel spiders are. It sure is dishonest to assert that it was just her on the trip and that she was alone. There's a certain romanticism in the idea of a lone person in an isolated and deserted poisoned land traveling and documenting the journey, but it would have been just as interesting if it were she and her husband from the get-go.
I do remember her site and there was never a mention of a husband or anyone else going along with her. In fact, as I recall she quite clearly asserted that it was a solo trip (and one of many to the area).
At any rate, I'm still eager for the chernobyl based first person shooter coming out! (I forget its name).
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In fact, this is true. The best way to keep notes and lists is with a giant document with a plain old no-frills text editor. No worries about compatibility or flexibility, easy to search and many people agree that it's faster and less trouble than going with a complex application.
I eventually wanted something that I could add files to, set up categories with and be very dynamic and upgradable and modifiable. So I installed a wiki. Personally, I chose TWiki (twiki.org) because it's done with perl and has a lot of pre-written plugins. I love it.
ATITD isn't about playing against other players. You're all - the entire society - working toward a common goal of progression and social, scientific, technological and spiritual evolution. You can join weeks into the game and be "caught up".
If we already fingerprint criminals, what's the big deal if we take a "biological footprint", if you will, of them?
Um... Because a criminal is someone that is charged with a crime, arrested, has evidence presented against him by a state prosecutor, has his defense presented by a defense attorney, then has a judge and a jury decide that he is guilty and sentence him.
An arrested person is just someone a copy has stuck handcuffs on for any number of valid or often invalid reasons.
I knew someone who was arrested for suspicion of counterfeitting currency and was released later in the day when they realized he just physically resembled the person they were after. Does this upstanding, hardworking, nice guy deserve to have a DNA sample taken and stored as potential evidence in an as of yet unoccurring, presumed future crime merely for an hour in jail due to mistaken identity?
Do you comprehend the idea of "innocent until proven guilty"?
If you are taking someone's DNA sample today, even though they are not guilty of anything, with the intention of using it against them later to match against data commited from a crime in the future, you are automatically presuming their guilty today which is directly against the fundamental premise of our legal system.
Do police departments remove your fingerprints from their posession if you are not convicted of a crime? I've always wondered this. I'm sure that, even if they claimed to, they wouldn't really do it. After all, even with minors, they don't erase their records. They are merely sealed. Same goes for adoption records. Getting a government agency to give up evidence or information or records probably is a lot like getting them to cut spending and give you back some of your tax money. Unheard of.
28 is still high when there are 2,000 cities.
But the climate is still the same. I spent almost a year in the Bay Area and, except for the Palm trees, it was just like home. It even snowed once - which rarely happens in Portland.
I would pay to see Linus zooming down the west hills on a little girl's bicycle. Zoobombing is the best!
Portland has the highest unemployment rate (and has for awhile now) in the country. However, we also have a minimum wage that is something like $7.50/hr.
:)
Fortunately, my employer is in the Bay Area and I telecommute from Portland so my employment is not at all dependant on the local economy. In fact, the worse the local economy does, the more power my dollars from California have.
Yeah, I was surprised the first time I was in the Bay Area and the person I was riding with got out at the gas station to pump their own gas. In Portland, it's not just that you don't have to pump your own gas -- you aren't allowed to pump your own gas.
Our property taxes suck, but I still like the fact that when I buy $2,500 in computer parts, I don't have to spend another $250 just to satisfy the state revenue division.
By "children's parade", do you mean the "Starlight Parade" - which is the second largest night time parade on the west coast, which is the prelude to the Rose Festival which is the largest parade on the west coast?
Just to clarify, the "whole neighborhood" didn't turn out for the Starlight Parade. The Starlight Parade draws between 350,000 and 400,000 people. A bit more than a little neighborhood parade.
Linus should check out the best talk show in the northwest, too: RickEmerson.com.
We also have the dragon boat races, japanese rose gardens, chinese garden, are mad about bicycling and mass transit and are home to The Worlds Largest Book Store.
Well, it seems to be big enough news for KATU news which is your standard non-geek every-day news outlet in a major metropolitan city. How much news on slashdot is "very important" and "will affect things"? Maybe five percent? Get a grip.
First off, yes the weather is dreary for at least two thirds of the year. Some of us prefer that. Not everyone wants San Diego style weather and Portland is probably more familiar to someone from Finland than most of California, too (although the Bay Area is a bit like Portland as far as weather most of the year).
Second, the cost of housing is cheaper than in the bay area, but still in the top ten or fifteen most expensive in the country.
I wouldn't leave here for anything. I lived in the Bay Area. Didn't like it one bit.
We're always glad to have another accomplished geek join us here. What great news!
It's simple.
You refuse to patch pirated copies of your product so that those users continue to plague the networks. This causes continued news stories and attention on the problem of viruses and security.
However, the attention will not be on "Microsoft sucks", but "Microsoft has fixed these problems but evil pirates are responsible for continuing the problem". Microsoft pushes pirates == security risks to gain greater government favor in their anti-piracy efforts.
DC does have these. I've seen it reported on TechTV, FOX News and CNN. A number of other cities have these two. I've probably heard half a dozen just on television reports alone.
Kind of not news at all anymore. *shrug*
Imagine if they did this with Halo.
Game comes out on Xbox in 2000.
Game comes out on PC in 2003.
Game comes out on Linux in 2006.
I don't play a whole lot of video games, but I keep a high-end windows box around just for them. I really don't want to be the last guy on earth to get to play a cool game just because most aren't put out for Linux at the same time (except for UT2K4 and a few others!).
If it weren't for the games, I'd finally rid myself of Windows entirely and I'm sure many others feel the same.
Unfortunately, donations don't always work. I run an auction site that has been around for many years and has quite a few users. However, the donations aren't even enough to keep up with the monthly expenses (which aren't a whole lot really).
You can't expect people to give money that they don't have, but it's still a difficult situation when people want your site to stay around and make frequent use of it (and it is based on monetary transactions between other users to begin with), but you're stuck paying for it out of pocket.
Personally, I've had a "no advertising" policy that I've held strictly to for more than five years. Nothing even resembling any type of advertising has ever plagued a single inch of my site. But upon investigation, a number of users commented that "hey, now that you mention it this site DOESN'T have any advertising or banners on it... I never noticed that before!".
Here I thought I was sticking to some lofty non-commercial "back to the old internet" goal by not accepting advertising or anything only to find out that the average internet user doesn't even notice when a site does not have ads.
The disapointing part of it is that sites like this can't continue once the main/only source of income (the admin/owner) loses their job. You can't pay out of pocket when those pockets are empty.
When it comes to software rather than websites... I think the best thing you can do is offer two versions for non and paying users or just ask for donations. If you stick ads in them, people will also suspect spyware and they will find ways to get rid of your ads on their end. It will drive a lot of people away to alternatives that are ad-free. I know that I am more likely to toss a few bucks at authors of software that I like when they have strong anti-ad/invasion practices from the beginning.
Best of luck to you.
Listening to music is not at all like watching a movie. Unlike a movie, you aren't following a plot line and a story and while you can tire of a song or album, it's more from repetition than simply knowing every work in the script.
You can quote an entire movie line by line and I'm the moron. Christ...
For $2,000, you could buy 133 replacements and have the problems solved in three minutes.
In Oregon, you also have the option of EasyStreet which specifically declares it acceptable to share your connection as long as it isn't completely open-ended (in other words, you need to password your access). They're also very linux and open-source friendly and are a great company.
I used them for almost three years, until I got tired of paying $90/mo to them and $80/mo to Qwest for the physical line to get 640k/640k when I could get 3.5mbps/256k through Comcast (yeah, I don't like them either) for only $60/mo.
They're very knowleldgable and don't have a problem with running your own servers for non-business purposes.
I don't like to pimp advertising but they were a really great and unique ISP and if anyone needs DSL service in this area, I'd strongly reccommend them.
Yeah, I just wish I'd patented it - but Real Genius only goes so far, you know.
Doh! I meant to say "as a seed".
I already downloaded the file earlier, but just added myself to your torrent as a peer. Hope it helps.
That sucks. Either way, she still made the trip so it's not like it's a hoax in the same way that giant foot long 30mph camel spiders are. It sure is dishonest to assert that it was just her on the trip and that she was alone. There's a certain romanticism in the idea of a lone person in an isolated and deserted poisoned land traveling and documenting the journey, but it would have been just as interesting if it were she and her husband from the get-go.
I do remember her site and there was never a mention of a husband or anyone else going along with her. In fact, as I recall she quite clearly asserted that it was a solo trip (and one of many to the area).
At any rate, I'm still eager for the chernobyl based first person shooter coming out! (I forget its name).