I have an emergency box that isn't a standard first aid kit. I use two feet of red duct tape, with smaller inlaid reflective tape like this stuff http://www.reflectivelyyours.com/generic123.html) in case the lights are out, to make a red-cross-like symbol on it so anyone who grabs it or needs to find it can do so in a hurry.
Should I be turning myself in? I mean its no different that I use it for my own personal gain (insert evil laugh?) than blizzard using little dancing logos in WoW when you use bandages, is it? I'm sorry I thought the Red Cross has other shit to worry about than someone using what I would consider a universal symbol for "NEED FIRST AID LOOK HERE!"
...they're a corporation just like any other - their only driver is the bottom line.
Am I the only one getting tired of hearing this cliche, tired of the cop-out attitude it gives to an argument? I wish people would stop tagging every company they want to complain about with this catchphrase, its rather insulting. For example, that tagline is good for companies like Enron, WorldCom, SCO, etc. But don't lump some piddlyshit detail in how a company decided to operate into the same group. Frankly, I don't see how wanting to keep their 'way' all inclusive counts as some bastardly deed against society. Its not like if you choose to not buy an iPod for christmas your family is going to need to start reading by candlelight and cooking over a woodstove...
(not meant to be a personal attack - sometimes it just seems the smallest things get blown so out of proportion here)
/. should follow suit and commit to a standard duped-article icon. This way, those outcasted and humilated articles can display their mark of shame right on the front page!
Use SQL to index the metadata (info from the text file) and lock down the storage (some kind of NAS is easy) so its anything *but* public. This lets you easily manipulate categorization and security of the documents too.
You'll never be 100% paperless. We've been pushing paperless for 3 years now, and we've made awesome progress. Anyone that tells you its ridiculous or impossible has either never tried it OR maybe their line of business wouldn't benifit from it. For us it is a huge improvement because we don't have to ship paperwork around the office (not to mention the nation) and the amount of things getting lost is almost down to zero.
Aside from that, I'll give you some advice that we've learned from doing this. If you're lucky, the way your scanners work is they send the data to the software using an anonymous FTP account. Ours sends each page as a seperate TIFF file, along with some metadata in an xml file (don't be surprised if the xml is ridiculously dirty) and then some type of "I'm Done Now" empty file. Your best bet is to start up your favorite network scanner, ethereal or whatever, and play around with the transactions between this software and the scanner. Put the packets together using the Follow TCP Stream and you'll see how they interact. We decided to basically pretend to be the software and coded our own services and application to do all the work, giving us a tremendous amount of control with what happened to all the virtual paper.
I've seen paperless solutions in place at other companies in our sector, so I know why most people laugh when they hear "paperless" - especially with how much solution providers charge for their software. But if you have a software team or even just one programmer with a clue you can build something a thousand times better and more suitable for your business (our software integrates with all our other applications seamlessly, it would have been nearly impossible to do that with a packaged product for sure).
i would never buy an iPod simply because of that incredible oversight
Good for you, millions of people disagree. Its fairly obvious Apple has done their "cost-benifit analysis" on that one. If you want a radio so badly, go to the ATM and withdraw a crisp $20. Then head to your favorite radio shack and look for this.
Stop bothering the rest of us with how adding an AM/FM tuner into the iPod is going to make %.0001 of the population get one.
You didn't like Apple's Airport because of its size, even though it *comes* with a wall-mount bracket so you can mount it "high on a cubicle wall," something you find lacking in this device. It also has the ability to connect an external antenna for better range, has no cheap-ass 5 DHCP address limit (btw how LAME), and supports WPA. It also has a super-neat dialin feature using the modem so you can connect back into your network remotely if you did end up some place with broadband and the airport took a more permanent role in a home network.
I don't even use these services and I still get a very small percentage of spam leaking through our filter. Maybe I'm not on the superscale but when I had the DNS lists turned on they didn't even capture a sizable percentage in the first place. Here's an example, my last 30 days of message categorization:
Anyone blacklisted by these services need not worry about getting in touch with me, unless they *really* are pushing spam. I say we all abandon these antiquated tools and move on that doesn't put all the power in the hands of the few and let the internet manage itself again.
What if there were both, one in your wrist and one on your wrist. If the loose proximity with eachother, alarm. If one is tampered or removed, alarm. There could be other goodies too like the embeded one needing to keep a certain temperature range or something to make sure its still 'in'. Maybe I'm crossing the line of what RFID can handle though...
Then again we could always go back to whips, chains, and torture chambers!
Hell, I think PalmOne's Treo could kill the blackberry if it offered REAL push email and instant messanger applications.
There is a REAL push email option. The software you seek is Good. No, really. Check out GoodLink ( www.good.com ) and see how they are already one-upping blackberry by doing crazy wacky things like letting you CHOOSE from a bunch of different phones and setup a new managed phone without touching or cradling it, EVER. Palm and Windows Mobile devices are supported with talks of Symbian on the way. The UI is much nicer than BB phones (according to actual BB users) and aside from issues with the Treo 650 itself, the software has been problem free since day 1.
Disc: Not from an employee, but a satisfied customer and guy who has to admin the stuff.
TFA doesn't really go into detail, but I can only assume they want to use cameras to detect "things" and react accordingly. To me it seems like on old idea being applied to a new idea. Isn't there something better than photo/video analysis these days? I'm just not sure how well data from a set of cameras provides a good foundation for gauging depth perception, or the difference between a repaired section of a street and a pothole or puddle.
What would stop a car, trying to avoid a potential accident, from steering itself off the side of a cliff?
And what about choices that real people may have to decide. If I lost control of my car and the options were
1) Attempt to crash into brick wall
2) Attempt to crash into side of a hill
3) Do nothing and continue on course to plow into a group of children crossing a street.
What would the car decide? What's the failsafe if the magic computer stops working? What level of control is still in the hands of the driver? These are questions people will want to know the answer to, not a bunch of marketing oral-ejaculation about how this is the greatest thing since seatbelts.
One of the nice things about BB is the coupons you get via email or on the envelope they ship the DVD's in for in-store rentals (which then can include games) or purchases. I've been happy with their service since the day I signed up, even when having to request replacement discs that were scratched or otherwise non-functional.
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IMDB says Toys was released in 1992, but this is news? Get with the times /.!
I have an emergency box that isn't a standard first aid kit. I use two feet of red duct tape, with smaller inlaid reflective tape like this stuff http://www.reflectivelyyours.com/generic123.html) in case the lights are out, to make a red-cross-like symbol on it so anyone who grabs it or needs to find it can do so in a hurry. Should I be turning myself in? I mean its no different that I use it for my own personal gain (insert evil laugh?) than blizzard using little dancing logos in WoW when you use bandages, is it? I'm sorry I thought the Red Cross has other shit to worry about than someone using what I would consider a universal symbol for "NEED FIRST AID LOOK HERE!"
Or can we get a CNet icon so I can filter anything related to their lunatic articles out?
Based on your estimations then, Google will be entering the Porn industry in the next 5 minutes.
(not meant to be a personal attack - sometimes it just seems the smallest things get blown so out of proportion here)
I don't know about you, but the last thing I want is any of Billy's Urges being aimed anywhere in my living room.
/. should follow suit and commit to a standard duped-article icon. This way, those outcasted and humilated articles can display their mark of shame right on the front page!
Thanks, G.
Use SQL to index the metadata (info from the text file) and lock down the storage (some kind of NAS is easy) so its anything *but* public. This lets you easily manipulate categorization and security of the documents too.
Aside from that, I'll give you some advice that we've learned from doing this. If you're lucky, the way your scanners work is they send the data to the software using an anonymous FTP account. Ours sends each page as a seperate TIFF file, along with some metadata in an xml file (don't be surprised if the xml is ridiculously dirty) and then some type of "I'm Done Now" empty file. Your best bet is to start up your favorite network scanner, ethereal or whatever, and play around with the transactions between this software and the scanner. Put the packets together using the Follow TCP Stream and you'll see how they interact. We decided to basically pretend to be the software and coded our own services and application to do all the work, giving us a tremendous amount of control with what happened to all the virtual paper.
I've seen paperless solutions in place at other companies in our sector, so I know why most people laugh when they hear "paperless" - especially with how much solution providers charge for their software. But if you have a software team or even just one programmer with a clue you can build something a thousand times better and more suitable for your business (our software integrates with all our other applications seamlessly, it would have been nearly impossible to do that with a packaged product for sure).
And I just got back from vacation...
*sigh*
Good for you, millions of people disagree. Its fairly obvious Apple has done their "cost-benifit analysis" on that one. If you want a radio so badly, go to the ATM and withdraw a crisp $20. Then head to your favorite radio shack and look for this.
Stop bothering the rest of us with how adding an AM/FM tuner into the iPod is going to make %.0001 of the population get one.
Worst. Naming-convention. Ever.
And sometimes when IPP has transmission errors, you need to check your end-point sending unit to make sure the data stream is stable.
Part of the IPP standard is that all cabling will be yellow in color, if someone uses red... well... lets not talk about that.
Palm's Treo 600. Thankfully, it was fixed with the Treo 650.
I'm sure there are countless more examples, like every bluetooth headset I've ever used.
Besides, if your $300 device wont hold a charge to the point its unusable, what's the harm in prying it open?
Wait, so why didn't you like the Airport?
Total Processed - 2,260,811
New Senders - 0
Total Spam - 1,915,404
Keyword Checking - 4,818
Header Checking - 5,283
Blacklist - 21
Bayesian Analysis - 35,248
DNS Blacklist - 0
SPF - 354,726
Directory Harvesting - 1,515,308
Spam URL Blacklist - 0
Spam Percentage - 85%
Anyone blacklisted by these services need not worry about getting in touch with me, unless they *really* are pushing spam. I say we all abandon these antiquated tools and move on that doesn't put all the power in the hands of the few and let the internet manage itself again.
*Yawn* Nothing to see here...
ps. burn karma burn!!!
What if there were both, one in your wrist and one on your wrist. If the loose proximity with eachother, alarm. If one is tampered or removed, alarm. There could be other goodies too like the embeded one needing to keep a certain temperature range or something to make sure its still 'in'. Maybe I'm crossing the line of what RFID can handle though...
Then again we could always go back to whips, chains, and torture chambers!
There is a REAL push email option. The software you seek is Good. No, really. Check out GoodLink ( www.good.com ) and see how they are already one-upping blackberry by doing crazy wacky things like letting you CHOOSE from a bunch of different phones and setup a new managed phone without touching or cradling it, EVER. Palm and Windows Mobile devices are supported with talks of Symbian on the way. The UI is much nicer than BB phones (according to actual BB users) and aside from issues with the Treo 650 itself, the software has been problem free since day 1.
Disc: Not from an employee, but a satisfied customer and guy who has to admin the stuff.
What would stop a car, trying to avoid a potential accident, from steering itself off the side of a cliff?
And what about choices that real people may have to decide. If I lost control of my car and the options were
1) Attempt to crash into brick wall
2) Attempt to crash into side of a hill
3) Do nothing and continue on course to plow into a group of children crossing a street.
What would the car decide? What's the failsafe if the magic computer stops working? What level of control is still in the hands of the driver? These are questions people will want to know the answer to, not a bunch of marketing oral-ejaculation about how this is the greatest thing since seatbelts.
If you have Procurve 5300's then this may be useful: http://www.hp.com/rnd/pdfs/virus_throttling_tech_b rief.pdf
One of the nice things about BB is the coupons you get via email or on the envelope they ship the DVD's in for in-store rentals (which then can include games) or purchases. I've been happy with their service since the day I signed up, even when having to request replacement discs that were scratched or otherwise non-functional.
Maybe it focuses a lot of attention because it isn't worthless? Maybe your wrong? *gasp*