As a jeweller who sells a lot of these stones, I can say that they are not 'very expensive'. They are on cost parity with stones that are of similar quality.
The guys and gals at Sirius are focussing a bit more on cutting the diamonds well.
if you're interested email me at thom at idar/com (obfuscated)
Declan seems to have fallen for the fallacy that politicians are dumb, and the hubris that geeks can outpace them.
Politicians are just as good at what they do as geeks are at what they do. If we ignore the politicians, they *will* win. They can shut down the things we love to all but those who are willing to break the law. Don't kid yourselves.
Geeks have to fight the lobbying fight to protect the technology fight.
I appreciate the karma points from the 'funny' moderations(*), but come on folks.... that joke is almost a year old (when we first thought our woodies would go stable)..
* - yes folks, with a five figure user ID, I've finally hit my karma cap.
I just sent my mom a little response to one of her emails that took 17.9K to say "How are you?". It was produced using an abomination called IncrediMail. un-fucking-beleivable!
Together with the invisible 1X1 goddam bitmaps in every piece of unforgiveable-by-god-even piece of spam in my inbox it's enough to make one go on a rampage.
would you prefer to have a two hour telephone support call from your mom, or a 10 minute SSH session to fix your mom's computer long distance. ask yourself that question before you ask yourself why your Mom is using Windows.
Asking other people to moderate that post into oblivion is not 'a good response'. I agree with you that we may need to make friends with people who don't understand exactly what we're fighting for, but not at the expense of those people who do.
The poster understood that; Thanks for looking into it Jane, but keep digging. There's truth at the end of your quest, but you will have to stay away from entertainment pimps, their attorneys and other people only interested in extracting money from you.
I appreciate you responding with your point of view, and your personal involvement makes it important, but asking others to silence other voices is NOT right, or appreciated...
Ummm.... aren't the shareholders the owners? There is a sheild for personal responsibility for the owners. The fact that they have appointed people to actually run it should not absolve them of the fact that it was their money/ownership that enabled the hypothetical criminal or civil liability to be created. The buck should stop with the people who own the business in my not so humble opinion.... then again I'm a libertarian loonie who actually believes in personal responsibility....
Conversely, talk about requiring DRM support in the next release will ensure people will want the current version, so that they won't be stuck with the next one.....
It'll hold up well. We've been using it in Jewellery for about twenty years, and haven't had a problem. The only downside to a Ti wedding band is that you're hooped f you need it sized.....Stuff burns like magnesium when you try to solder it in oxygen.....
Call up some security firms.... ADT (http://www.adt.com)although they are a huge company are good for doing walthroughs and recommendations. Going digital is pretty standard for security companies nowadays. good cameras are what will kill the budget however... look at spending about 750-1000 dollars each for a good security cam.... 'course, you can cheap out with usb webcams, but it'll break down the day whatever you're looking after gets stolen... Murphy's law and all that.
Get a quote from a security professional, then cut back what you can.
In case you're wondering, I'm a jeweller. I know a teensy bit about securing things.:)
I have been saying for five years that this is the biggest hole in the Linux software world. For a small business like the one I work for (about 750,000US/year) we aren't running custom apps etc. We are currently using MYOB for the mac. Why... It is the ONLY non windows off-the-shelf accounting package that handles Canadian payroll. There is no Linux alternative. NONE! Until a business can run single boot on one computer, they will not switch. There are hundreds of thousands of businesses our side in Canada alone. This is the market that Linux has to penetrate if it is going to break out of the niche it is settling into.
repeat after me: Payroll, A/R, A/P. These are what a small business needs.
Pardon my incoherence, but this is the week before Christmas, and I've been working twelve hours a day, seven days a week, and It's about to get worse. The people who could really answer the questions for this topic are too busy right now. That's why most of the people responding are large business types.
Microsoft is a monopoly. Legally speaking they are not only a monopoly, they are abusing that status. Schools are funded by the government. Punishing Microsoft by extending their monopoly further is a bad idea.
Pushing a government funded institution into helping break that monopoly is a good idea.
As far as whether the schools would install it themselves if they wanted to, that option doesn't even show up on their radar 99.99% of the time. That is the power of a monopoly.
I've also seen a lot of comments about how there isn't any educational software fo linux. To that I call bullshit. Given any subject there is something out there that some geek has whipped together, and it may not be produced by Mattel or Disney, but Linux is a much better tool for actually instilling the ability to learn than Windows.
I think this is a great publicity stunt by RedHat, and it won't go anywhere, but I'd love to see Linux in more schools. Yes I said more. There are quite a few schools that are already using it. do a google search for 'Linux education schools'
If you're going to install yourself, and use your own equipment, Why not moitor yourself. Set up a computer with enough serial ports to monitor your equipment. Attach it redundantly to an ADSL or cable modem line, and the telephone line. Set it up so that it pages you through the Net, and through the phone line at regulat intervals as a failsafe. If you leave a mike active, you might even get it routed through the phone line to a cell call.
For hardware, use hardwired switches on windows and doorways, not wireless.
If it's just for you at your various computers, might I suggest a palm pilot/palm desktop combo?
If you're talking about something that's for corporate use, where many users need to look up addresses, how hard could it possibly be to set up a web interface to ldap. Or if money and morals are no object, you could enslave yourself to microsoft's exchange server. Apparently it does things like that... never used it myself.
Can you imagine how much invasion of privacy this would entail. They would have to track every page each user went to. The monetary issue aside, this is dead in the water as far as I'm concerned. The implementation of this would be a nightmare.
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As a jeweller who sells a lot of these stones, I can say that they are not 'very expensive'. They are on cost parity with stones that are of similar quality.
The guys and gals at Sirius are focussing a bit more on cutting the diamonds well.
if you're interested email me at thom at idar/com (obfuscated)
http://www.idar.com is the store I work at
Declan seems to have fallen for the fallacy that politicians are dumb, and the hubris that geeks can outpace them.
Politicians are just as good at what they do as geeks are at what they do. If we ignore the politicians, they *will* win. They can shut down the things we love to all but those who are willing to break the law. Don't kid yourselves.
Geeks have to fight the lobbying fight to protect the technology fight.
and em-pee-three is better? at least ogg can't have urine jokes based on it... ogg vorbis always sounded like an old german stereo maker to me...
I'd moderate you up, but I'm installing my stable woody...
'There are no grass-roots efforts on the Web. The Internet army, which is enormous, hasn't been engaged or conscripted.'"
Apparently this person has never been slashdotted...
Actually, having it go stable after a lot of testing is good too....
I appreciate the karma points from the 'funny' moderations(*), but come on folks.... that joke is almost a year old (when we first thought our woodies would go stable)..
* - yes folks, with a five figure user ID, I've finally hit my karma cap.
finally my woody is stable!
Amen brother!!!
I just sent my mom a little response to one of her emails that took 17.9K to say "How are you?". It was produced using an abomination called IncrediMail. un-fucking-beleivable!
Together with the invisible 1X1 goddam bitmaps in every piece of unforgiveable-by-god-even piece of spam in my inbox it's enough to make one go on a rampage.
would you prefer to have a two hour telephone support call from your mom, or a 10 minute SSH session to fix your mom's computer long distance. ask yourself that question before you ask yourself why your Mom is using Windows.
thanks for that link.
If you want to sync, install Palm Desktop for OSX, and before syncing, delete the updates in /Applications/Palm/Palm OS Updates/
It'll work. I fubarred my palm, and had to do a hard reset on my Visor Deluxe a couple of times til I figured that out.
Works like a charm now.. All I'm waiting for now is a few more conduits.. most specifically AvantGo.
Asking other people to moderate that post into oblivion is not 'a good response'. I agree with you that we may need to make friends with people who don't understand exactly what we're fighting for, but not at the expense of those people who do.
The poster understood that;
Thanks for looking into it Jane, but keep digging. There's truth at the end of your quest, but you will have to stay away from entertainment pimps, their attorneys and other people only interested in extracting money from you.
I appreciate you responding with your point of view, and your personal involvement makes it important, but asking others to silence other voices is NOT right, or appreciated...
Ummm.... aren't the shareholders the owners? There is a sheild for personal responsibility for the owners. The fact that they have appointed people to actually run it should not absolve them of the fact that it was their money/ownership that enabled the hypothetical criminal or civil liability to be created. The buck should stop with the people who own the business in my not so humble opinion....
then again I'm a libertarian loonie who actually believes in personal responsibility....
Conversely, talk about requiring DRM support in the next release will ensure people will want the current version, so that they won't be stuck with the next one.....
It'll hold up well. We've been using it in Jewellery for about twenty years, and haven't had a problem. The only downside to a Ti wedding band is that you're hooped f you need it sized.....Stuff burns like magnesium when you try to solder it in oxygen.....
versus 100% probability that 100% could potentially be compromised?
we are talking worst case scenario here.....
Call up some security firms.... ADT (http://www.adt.com)although they are a huge company are good for doing walthroughs and recommendations. Going digital is pretty standard for security companies nowadays. good cameras are what will kill the budget however... look at spending about 750-1000 dollars each for a good security cam.... 'course, you can cheap out with usb webcams, but it'll break down the day whatever you're looking after gets stolen... Murphy's law and all that.
Get a quote from a security professional, then cut back what you can.
In case you're wondering, I'm a jeweller. I know a teensy bit about securing things. :)
I have been saying for five years that this is the biggest hole in the Linux software world. For a small business like the one I work for (about 750,000US/year) we aren't running custom apps etc. We are currently using MYOB for the mac. Why... It is the ONLY non windows off-the-shelf accounting package that handles Canadian payroll. There is no Linux alternative. NONE! Until a business can run single boot on one computer, they will not switch. There are hundreds of thousands of businesses our side in Canada alone. This is the market that Linux has to penetrate if it is going to break out of the niche it is settling into.
repeat after me: Payroll, A/R, A/P. These are what a small business needs.
Pardon my incoherence, but this is the week before Christmas, and I've been working twelve hours a day, seven days a week, and It's about to get worse. The people who could really answer the questions for this topic are too busy right now. That's why most of the people responding are large business types.
Microsoft is a monopoly. Legally speaking they are not only a monopoly, they are abusing that status. Schools are funded by the government. Punishing Microsoft by extending their monopoly further is a bad idea.
Pushing a government funded institution into helping break that monopoly is a good idea.
As far as whether the schools would install it themselves if they wanted to, that option doesn't even show up on their radar 99.99% of the time. That is the power of a monopoly.
I've also seen a lot of comments about how there isn't any educational software fo linux. To that I call bullshit. Given any subject there is something out there that some geek has whipped together, and it may not be produced by Mattel or Disney, but Linux is a much better tool for actually instilling the ability to learn than Windows.
I think this is a great publicity stunt by RedHat, and it won't go anywhere, but I'd love to see Linux in more schools. Yes I said more. There are quite a few schools that are already using it. do a google search for 'Linux education schools'
some useful(Karma Whoring) links:
http://www.seul.org/edu/
http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/
http://scnc.holt.k12.mi.us/techplan/index.html
oh yeah, and world peace, and for Debian woody to go stable
Your post gave me hope. Thank You.
If you're going to install yourself, and use your own equipment, Why not moitor yourself. Set up a computer with enough serial ports to monitor your equipment. Attach it redundantly to an ADSL or cable modem line, and the telephone line. Set it up so that it pages you through the Net, and through the phone line at regulat intervals as a failsafe. If you leave a mike active, you might even get it routed through the phone line to a cell call.
For hardware, use hardwired switches on windows and doorways, not wireless.
If it's just for you at your various computers, might I suggest a palm pilot/palm desktop combo?
If you're talking about something that's for corporate use, where many users need to look up addresses, how hard could it possibly be to set up a web interface to ldap. Or if money and morals are no object, you could enslave yourself to microsoft's exchange server. Apparently it does things like that... never used it myself.
Can you imagine how much invasion of privacy this would entail. They would have to track every page each user went to. The monetary issue aside, this is dead in the water as far as I'm concerned. The implementation of this would be a nightmare.