FlexCar charges both by the mile (35 cents) and by the hour (9 dollars) with a small number of free miles for each hour (generally 30).
I live in Seattle and haven't been enthused about it.
To take a flex car to somewhere close but inconvenient that isn't served by bus, say a doctor appointment where you need time, is going to cost about $30 just for the time.
Or a trip to a nearby city, (Seattle to Everett) that might take an hour to drive there and back, but easily put 100 miles on a car... again, $30.
At the $30 mark, you can easily get a rental car for the entire day. Most real rental cars have enough free miles to make nearby but long trips.
Truly I don't know anyone who pays for FlexCar out of their own money who keeps using it.
I'd really like it if I could just grab a FlexCar on some one-way trips, like when I see one parked in a Park and Ride, it's cold, and my bus is late... but you have to return it where you find it and it's not quite so spontaneous to take them. C'est la vie, it hasn't worked for me.
I tried to use it multiple times. I'd be logged into MSN, MSN Messenger, reading hotmail, and in some new window (using IE, even) I'd try to log into eBay and, nope, same page, repeatedly, asking for the username and password.
I'd have liked for it to work, but I don't think anyone at eBay ever actually cared whether it worked.
A USB full speed (1.1) interface is good enough if the USB device has it's own electronics to compress the signal or if it is just forwarding an already compressed signal.
A USB high speed (2.0) interface is good enough by itself.
Major spammers don't send from the ISPs mail server. Implementing throttling won't affect them a bit.
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There are several good suggestions here on how to disable recurring apps. Here are mine.
Set NTFS rights to the file to DENY for yourself or some subgroup. Deny rights take precedence.
For executables, setup a software restriction policy, (start, run, secpol.msc) that disables based on the path. Just enter the exe name or it has a nice handy browse button, but the path also accepts wildcards and environment variables. (Don't tell your netword administrator this, but putting %logonserver% in here prevents those annoying domain logon scripts.)
How does this creationist claptrap instantly get modded up for spouting off some Michael Behe irreducible complexity nonsense?
Creationist claptrap doesn't need to get peer reviewed to get published (and then subsequently spouted off on internet message boards). But since creationists like to talk about bacterial flagellums people have gone to the trouble to write peer reviewed published articles refuting the claptrap.
Is there some conspiracy of bible thumpers that come along and comment on slashdot biology threads and then up-moderate their co-horts or are there really enough fucking stupid slashdot readers that really think arguments like "irreducible complexity" have interesting merit?
The AMD 5x86-133 (which was a 486 core with MMX) was easily overclocked to 160Mhz. Problem was you weren't just changing the CPU bus speed then, you also overclocked the PCI bus speed (to 40Mhz). Some cards choked.
Intel and AMD both experimented with 50Mhz CPU bus speeds in the 486 timeframe, so a 200Mhz 486 was probably up and functional in a lab.
160Mhz was stable once you had the configuration right. My ex-wife was still using that machine up until 2002 or so.
If an Xbox 2 can be converted to an Xbox 2.1 with a CD that flash-upgrades the OS
Already true. The majority of the OS is on the game disc. Any updated - or replaced - library that the game developer needs or wants they simply put on their disc. That gives console developers what they want - complete, unchanging and exact control over the environment their game runs in. It gaurantees that the experience of running their game is the same on every single platform. If the XBOX SDK upgrades some library, they take what they want for their disc. Console gamers don't know, and don't care, and don't care to know, about DLL version tracking.
This means Microsoft can continue to churn their code. Xbox game developers snapshot their environment at any specific point, and their game always runs in that version.
What's more, since there is no way to get off the SPEWS database
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The first amendment has nothing to do with spam. My server, my mailbox, my private property rights. The legal term of art that defines spam is "trespass to chattel." Why your argument about first amendment rights continues to show up on Slashdot years after court cases based on private property rights were upheld is baffling. It's been wrong every day that Slashdot has an article about spam and it keeps being wrong.
That's a nice joke about the badger. But you know what, this is f'real though. It's a web server that makes a dead frog twitch based on user input. Includes quicktime footage of the freaking dead frog already. That badger thing doesn't even have PhotoShop'd pics, this has video.
Of course IP addresses in cafes should be on blacklists. You answer that question yourself when you mention just about half have been abused.
Why are you sending direct to MX from an internet cafe?
You have a return email address on your email. The server that handles that address should be setup to allow an authenticaed relay for you. Then your email always goes to the MX of the recipient with the same IP as the address of your MX. If your MX is properly secured you'll never be blacklisted.
And no, not all filters reject. Most client side filters (many of which use blacklists in whole or in part) just dump the spam without sending a reply. SMTP does not gaurantee delivery or notification of delivery. It's up to you, not your technology, to make sure your messages get delivered. So setting up a configuration that works most of the time is in your interest. Sending direct to MX from a cafe is, as you've discovered, not very fail safe.
Where I work we have a corporate support contract on the Dell desktops so we have to go through Dell to get our memory. I wanted to add an extra 512 MB of RDRAM and Dell wanted over $500 for it!
If you can't use the old RAM simultaneously then just stick it in a drawer or velcro it to the interior of the case. When the machine needs servicing, put the old RAM in.
Compaq pulls that same deal. We put 1GB chips in a bunch of servers that were ordered with 128MB. Compaq didn't want to service the machines but the old RAM was in a desk drawer. Put it back and let the whiny Compaq guy work on dog slow 128MB machines.
They are pony cars. Historically (60s-80s) auto executives thought of pony cars as selling to a different market than sports cars.
The Fiero needed to be in the 80s emerging market of sports compact. It was crippled though and the japanese soon owned that market with the 1st gen RX-7, the MR2, the Z, etc.
Sure. Watch Joe Lieberman in the Democratic debates and try to not hear "I'm afraid we are going to have to accept Federation control for the time being."
Every time Lieberman opens his mouth, thats what comes out.
Happy sailing to ya. I worked with a guy who had a minimal lifestyle. He'd work 4-6 months a year on a contract and sail the rest of the year. Back in 1995 we had a discussion about the importance of power management.
How many embedded devices written using an OSS base let third party code run? They don't. The platform is closed. This synth could have used Linux or other OSS and still created a closed platform for control of the actual synth. They didn't. It's an open hardware platform in a market notorious for single vendor platforms. Using Windows as the base OS let's you run software from anybody who can code for Windows. The synths out there that allow 'code' to run are still totally closed to third party development.
Sometimes an OS is just an OS. The platform is open the source for the OS is not. If you don't understand that difference you can go crawl back into flaming advocate hellhole. Like it or not Windows is an open platform. Anybody can code to Win32 and the customer can run it.
In a nitpicky way you're right. No single thread is ever going to address more than 4GB under IA32.
But with Win32 PAE, apps don't really care about that. The top end for AMT changes by SKU and product version but apps just see that top end (minus one GB). The disadvantage is that apps have to be written and know they have the extra memory. The linux method of doing PAE is much more thunky but apps don't have to know they aren't limited to 4GB. The two methods are about equal for apps that do indexing and searching of huge amounts of data (Databases) but the Windows method gives a huge advantage to applications that move that data around (Engineering).
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Smoking/Pets Fee: Fee for smoking in a vehicle or carrying pets without a pet carrier is $200.
Cleaning Fee: Emergency vehicle cleaning (interior not ready for next member) is $200 plus costs.
etc.
I live in Seattle and haven't been enthused about it.
To take a flex car to somewhere close but inconvenient that isn't served by bus, say a doctor appointment where you need time, is going to cost about $30 just for the time.
Or a trip to a nearby city, (Seattle to Everett) that might take an hour to drive there and back, but easily put 100 miles on a car... again, $30.
At the $30 mark, you can easily get a rental car for the entire day. Most real rental cars have enough free miles to make nearby but long trips.
Truly I don't know anyone who pays for FlexCar out of their own money who keeps using it.
I'd really like it if I could just grab a FlexCar on some one-way trips, like when I see one parked in a Park and Ride, it's cold, and my bus is late... but you have to return it where you find it and it's not quite so spontaneous to take them. C'est la vie, it hasn't worked for me.
I tried to use it multiple times. I'd be logged into MSN, MSN Messenger, reading hotmail, and in some new window (using IE, even) I'd try to log into eBay and, nope, same page, repeatedly, asking for the username and password.
I'd have liked for it to work, but I don't think anyone at eBay ever actually cared whether it worked.
A USB high speed (2.0) interface is good enough by itself.
Major spammers don't send from the ISPs mail server. Implementing throttling won't affect them a bit.
Set NTFS rights to the file to DENY for yourself or some subgroup. Deny rights take precedence.
For executables, setup a software restriction policy, (start, run, secpol.msc) that disables based on the path. Just enter the exe name or it has a nice handy browse button, but the path also accepts wildcards and environment variables. (Don't tell your netword administrator this, but putting %logonserver% in here prevents those annoying domain logon scripts.)
It will show up on your machine automatically with the automatic updates feature. Whats the rush? It's not like this is a new Pokémon card.
Creationist claptrap doesn't need to get peer reviewed to get published (and then subsequently spouted off on internet message boards). But since creationists like to talk about bacterial flagellums people have gone to the trouble to write peer reviewed published articles refuting the claptrap.
Is there some conspiracy of bible thumpers that come along and comment on slashdot biology threads and then up-moderate their co-horts or are there really enough fucking stupid slashdot readers that really think arguments like "irreducible complexity" have interesting merit?
Intel and AMD both experimented with 50Mhz CPU bus speeds in the 486 timeframe, so a 200Mhz 486 was probably up and functional in a lab.
160Mhz was stable once you had the configuration right. My ex-wife was still using that machine up until 2002 or so.
Already true. The majority of the OS is on the game disc. Any updated - or replaced - library that the game developer needs or wants they simply put on their disc. That gives console developers what they want - complete, unchanging and exact control over the environment their game runs in. It gaurantees that the experience of running their game is the same on every single platform. If the XBOX SDK upgrades some library, they take what they want for their disc. Console gamers don't know, and don't care, and don't care to know, about DLL version tracking.
This means Microsoft can continue to churn their code. Xbox game developers snapshot their environment at any specific point, and their game always runs in that version.
But marking all my messages as read prevents me from migrating from Outlook Express, which has reasonably good IMAP support.
Geuss the lesson is don't install Release Candidates of OSS.
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Reminder:
Flames and rants aren't removal requests nor pleas for help.
Make the dead frogs legs twitch
Ok then?
Of course IP addresses in cafes should be on blacklists. You answer that question yourself when you mention just about half have been abused.
Why are you sending direct to MX from an internet cafe?
You have a return email address on your email. The server that handles that address should be setup to allow an authenticaed relay for you. Then your email always goes to the MX of the recipient with the same IP as the address of your MX. If your MX is properly secured you'll never be blacklisted.
And no, not all filters reject. Most client side filters (many of which use blacklists in whole or in part) just dump the spam without sending a reply. SMTP does not gaurantee delivery or notification of delivery. It's up to you, not your technology, to make sure your messages get delivered. So setting up a configuration that works most of the time is in your interest. Sending direct to MX from a cafe is, as you've discovered, not very fail safe.
Ba da bing! 5th amendment right against self-incrimination.
If you can't use the old RAM simultaneously then just stick it in a drawer or velcro it to the interior of the case. When the machine needs servicing, put the old RAM in.
Compaq pulls that same deal. We put 1GB chips in a bunch of servers that were ordered with 128MB. Compaq didn't want to service the machines but the old RAM was in a desk drawer. Put it back and let the whiny Compaq guy work on dog slow 128MB machines.
They are pony cars. Historically (60s-80s) auto executives thought of pony cars as selling to a different market than sports cars.
The Fiero needed to be in the 80s emerging market of sports compact. It was crippled though and the japanese soon owned that market with the 1st gen RX-7, the MR2, the Z, etc.
Sure. Watch Joe Lieberman in the Democratic debates and try to not hear "I'm afraid we are going to have to accept Federation control for the time being."
Every time Lieberman opens his mouth, thats what comes out.
It was called AutoDuel.
Car Wars is the semi-RPG board game from Steve Jackson that the computer game was based on.
Happy sailing to ya. I worked with a guy who had a minimal lifestyle. He'd work 4-6 months a year on a contract and sail the rest of the year. Back in 1995 we had a discussion about the importance of power management.
Hibernate is called the S4 sleep state. It is still using power because some peripheals can wake the machine. Wake-on-LAN, Wake-on-Ring, etc.
Sometimes an OS is just an OS. The platform is open the source for the OS is not. If you don't understand that difference you can go crawl back into flaming advocate hellhole. Like it or not Windows is an open platform. Anybody can code to Win32 and the customer can run it.
But with Win32 PAE, apps don't really care about that. The top end for AMT changes by SKU and product version but apps just see that top end (minus one GB). The disadvantage is that apps have to be written and know they have the extra memory. The linux method of doing PAE is much more thunky but apps don't have to know they aren't limited to 4GB. The two methods are about equal for apps that do indexing and searching of huge amounts of data (Databases) but the Windows method gives a huge advantage to applications that move that data around (Engineering).