If you need to pay in the end anyways, why not use the software the USERS prefer?
I'm not sure what users would prefered WordPerfect... Sure, down with microsoft and all, but it's a poor program. Go with OO.o or Abi Word or something that doesn't explode when you put an MS Word file into it (or tell you adjective forms of common nouns are mispelled, even though they're obviously found on dictionary.com)
Regarding why no OpenOffice - well, I guess the OpenOffice lobbiests just didn't know as nice restaraunts to take the decision makers.
I think it's probably more likely that with WordPerfect, there's a company they can throw money at and receive support. I think this is most likely one of the unfortunate cases where OpenSource is sluffed aside because of perceived insecurities.
I've used both OpenOffice and WordPerfect on my home machine, I can say without any lie that OpenOffice (esp 2.0beta) is much easier to work with and much friendlier with other file formats than WordPerfect is...
What I would like to know is if this Astrix PBX they talked about in the article can be used to replace the ATA Vonage hands out. I'm pretty sure Vonage won't let me return the ATA for any value, but Astrix looks to have more features.
Yeah... it's like All Advantage all over again. I hope to make some cash before they go out of business, unlike with All Advantage, where I got $20 and they went down the tube.
Is it possible? Obviously you'd have to avoid trying to get a Costa Rica local number, but for someone with relatives in a foreign country, would this be a plausible solution?
Am I the only one who doesn't think this will help True.com in any way or cause any real harm to any other websites?
If I saw that warning above a classified ad, yahoo personal, slashdot member page, or blogger.com listing I would simply say "No sh1t! Why would [my local newspaper/yahoo/slashdot/blogger] waste money performing a criminal background check?"
I'm also kind of surprised this hasn't passed in my state. We seem to have a propensity for passing stupid legislation recently...
Try not to take web-pedia's definition as legal advice.
web-pedia was simply one of the resources I referenced, and quite obviously the only one you visited. I also posted a link to an interview with Don Shelkey a Buchanan Ingersoll attorney. IANAL, but neither are you. Below is an important quote from that interview you might want to read...
"If you ask an attorney about EULAs, he or she will likely say they are enforceable, but there are some caveats." If you ask him about a terms of service agreement that you "sign" by clicking "I agree"[emphasis mine] each time you log into a service, he will likely say "that sounds pretty good to me." He will be right on both accounts. So, once again, true shrink wrap EULAs have been tested in most major jurisdictions and are valid contracts, subject to certain limitations. Terms of Service contracts, like the "EULA" found in MMOGs, are simply enforceable. There is a common perception that EULAs have not been tested in court. This is incorrect. They have been. In fact, very recently Blizzard's EULA was enforced in two separate cases and relief was granted based on the EULA's terms. -Don Shelkey from the Corporate Finance and Technology section of the law firm Buchanan Ingersoll "Shrink wrapped EULA" are those that you "agree to" simply by opening the box. Notice how it is stated in the quoted summary that EULA's requiring you to click I agree are enforcable.
As I've said before, you can get out of some of the "overly unreasonable" demands in an EULA through a lawsuit, but you can't simply push aside an EULA by saying "I didn't sign that!" (Well, you can, but I don't think it's wise. Call your Attorney, and ask him if it's wise before doing so, at least) ME? I'll trust the quoted Lawyer, and continue to read EULAs. Feel free to throw caution to the wind, if you please, though.
You can build a Westinghouse AP1000 advanced light water reactor at around $1400 per kilowatt, assuming you build 2 at a site. That includes design, engineering, and licensing for the first two plants. Cost for 200 megawatts would be only 280 million, and would take up far far less than 25,000 acres.
I'll assume your numbers are correct, and then that's $1.4 million/megawatt and $1.3 million/megawatt. So it's a roughly twice as expensive as building a standard power plant.
A couple of thoughts I have: 1) There won't be the additional running costs of coal, so over the long haul, this could be cheaper.. unless it gets really expensive to maintain somehow. 2) When you said dollars, are all of your dollar ammounts in US dollars? Or are they all in Au dollars? Or as some in US dollars and some in Au dollars? 3) How does the land use of this compare to other clean power sources? IE, is the watt/sq meter ratio better or worse for this project than standard photovoltaic cells? How about watt/sq meter compared to the average wind farm?
Dvorak says microsoft can sell a driver layer plugin for Linux based on the idea that vendors will only support the MS driver layer. Likely what would happen if MS in any way supported linux is that more hardware developers would support linux directly, taking away the power MS would have temporarily gained by using a driver layer.
Shortway: Steal someones card. Put it in your wallet, buy things. They won't ask for ID cause that will slow down the process (and they hardly ever do now anyway). If it's less than $25 there's no paper trail, either. This will work until the person realized their card is missing and reports it stolen. Esentially the same as the present, but at least now they're supposed to verify your identity by comparing signatures or checking for ID... at least there's SOME verification to prevent a stolen card that should occure.
Longway: 1) Use a small device about the size of a palm pilot to send someone's credit card a serious of a few hundred to a few thousand challanges and not the responce that's given back. 2) Go back to your computer and crunch the challange vs responce to determine the algorithm used to provide each. 3) Plug that algorithm into a generic battery powered tranciever about the size a palm pilot let the reader scan that rather than a wall encased credit card.
Steps 1 and 2 will be possible eventually (using the same methods that cracked TIs method, I'm sure) and eventually someone will make the nessicary hardware for step 3, or at least post instructions on the internet on how to build one with a PIC and some other cheap hardware.
The teller will never know if you're scanning a wallet with a credit card inside, or a wallet with a small battery powered tranciever inside.
The problem is not that this system is less secure than magstrips (it's about a million times more secure right now) The problem is that the teller never has to see your card to verify your identy. They won't know if it's your card in the wallet or purse you swing past the reader, or someone elses, or even a device that randomly picks 1 of 30 peoples identities you got off the subway the week before. I wouldn't be concerned, but since the TI thing just a few weeks ago, I'm not sure how much I can trust RFID based challange response systems. The TI solution cracked was supposedly one of the best out there.
First, the person will probably use the same passphrase for everything because it's too difficult to remember multiple passphrases.... Phone numbers (In the US, at least) are limited to 10 digits because research shows the average person can only memorize 10 digits
People are good at memorizing 10 cognative units. The length of the cognive unit varies from person to person. In a password, it's likely to be 10 random characters. In a passphrase it can easily be 10 words or ever 10 sentences. The draw for passphrases is that they are EASIER to remember, yet longer, so more difficult to brute force.
Don't you have a favorite quote from a book or movie? You could even just use a random sentence in a book, and instead of memorizing "A4#$%(83bd;" (or rather, putting it on a post-it note under your desk,) you just remember "Head First Java, page 14, 5th sentence."
Another neat thing about passphrases that you can't do with randomly selected "good" passwords is create accronyms to help you remember.
Select which stories are posted and which aren't. There're not really editors so much as minimal quality control (remove boring articles and occasionally dupes)
Sorry, I meant Speech Recognition in ever spot I said Text to Speech. I could care less how much a computer can sound like a person if it can't understand what I say.
EULAs have been tested, and enforced,many times many times in court. Shrink-wrapped EULAs ("You agree by opening this box to... even though you haven't seen the agreement yet") might little easier to circumvent through a court case, but even those are valid contracts.
You don't need to sign every contract with a pen. People sign the FAFSA all the time without ever touching a mouse, and verbal contracts are also seen as legally binding in many places.
Hasn't anyone ever read Andromeda?? Don't thaw them out!!
The frozen bacteria they find on mars could have been what killed those little dudes we used to see in movies all of the time, but strangley don't anymore. (Last time I saw them was in Mars Attacks, and they were obvious fakes..)
Salon.com requires a soul-sucking registration link.
Dude... the link was to salon's RSS feeder... there was no registration when I clicked on the link, and I haven't been to salon's website in months (that is, two reformat's ago.
Why didn't I have this software during High School Spanish?
It says it can scan through audio files an input source. I wonder if this causes it to "learn" the auditory signatures (and thus only knows the translation when given audio input), or if it relies on text to speech from to convert it to text first?
If it does the latter, than based on the quality of current text-to-speech software, this probably wouldn't do much good in a total immersion classroom situation...
Sure would have helped with my German homework, though;)
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If you need to pay in the end anyways, why not use the software the USERS prefer?
I'm not sure what users would prefered WordPerfect... Sure, down with microsoft and all, but it's a poor program. Go with OO.o or Abi Word or something that doesn't explode when you put an MS Word file into it (or tell you adjective forms of common nouns are mispelled, even though they're obviously found on dictionary.com)
Regarding why no OpenOffice - well, I guess the OpenOffice lobbiests just didn't know as nice restaraunts to take the decision makers.
I think it's probably more likely that with WordPerfect, there's a company they can throw money at and receive support. I think this is most likely one of the unfortunate cases where OpenSource is sluffed aside because of perceived insecurities.
I've used both OpenOffice and WordPerfect on my home machine, I can say without any lie that OpenOffice (esp 2.0beta) is much easier to work with and much friendlier with other file formats than WordPerfect is...
The answer to your question is in the Step by Step Home Wiring Setup" in the Vonage Faq.
What I would like to know is if this Astrix PBX they talked about in the article can be used to replace the ATA Vonage hands out. I'm pretty sure Vonage won't let me return the ATA for any value, but Astrix looks to have more features.
Heh.. yeah. I knew what PBX was way back in the 80s before I was even in Middle School... Thank you Anarchist Cookbook!
Wow the dot-com bubble is back from the dead!
Yeah... it's like All Advantage all over again. I hope to make some cash before they go out of business, unlike with All Advantage, where I got $20 and they went down the tube.
Unfortunately you can't install extensions cause they all say they don't support Netscape.
Vonage uses UDP.
Grr... There probably would have been QOS issues running it over SSH even if it was TCP only...
Just because you agree with them doesn't mean that they're unbiased
I don't know.. it's in the Slashdot dictionary, man
unbiased also unbiassed adj. - of an opinion that is agreeable with one's own
Is it possible? Obviously you'd have to avoid trying to get a Costa Rica local number, but for someone with relatives in a foreign country, would this be a plausible solution?
Am I the only one who doesn't think this will help True.com in any way or cause any real harm to any other websites?
If I saw that warning above a classified ad, yahoo personal, slashdot member page, or blogger.com listing I would simply say "No sh1t! Why would [my local newspaper/yahoo/slashdot/blogger] waste money performing a criminal background check?"
I'm also kind of surprised this hasn't passed in my state. We seem to have a propensity for passing stupid legislation recently...
Try not to take web-pedia's definition as legal advice.
web-pedia was simply one of the resources I referenced, and quite obviously the only one you visited. I also posted a link to an interview with Don Shelkey a Buchanan Ingersoll attorney. IANAL, but neither are you. Below is an important quote from that interview you might want to read...
"If you ask an attorney about EULAs, he or she will likely say they are enforceable, but there are some caveats." If you ask him about a terms of service agreement that you "sign" by clicking "I agree"[emphasis mine] each time you log into a service, he will likely say "that sounds pretty good to me." He will be right on both accounts. So, once again, true shrink wrap EULAs have been tested in most major jurisdictions and are valid contracts, subject to certain limitations. Terms of Service contracts, like the "EULA" found in MMOGs, are simply enforceable. There is a common perception that EULAs have not been tested in court. This is incorrect. They have been. In fact, very recently Blizzard's EULA was enforced in two separate cases and relief was granted based on the EULA's terms.
-Don Shelkey from the Corporate Finance and Technology section of the law firm Buchanan Ingersoll
"Shrink wrapped EULA" are those that you "agree to" simply by opening the box. Notice how it is stated in the quoted summary that EULA's requiring you to click I agree are enforcable.
As I've said before, you can get out of some of the "overly unreasonable" demands in an EULA through a lawsuit, but you can't simply push aside an EULA by saying "I didn't sign that!" (Well, you can, but I don't think it's wise. Call your Attorney, and ask him if it's wise before doing so, at least) ME? I'll trust the quoted Lawyer, and continue to read EULAs. Feel free to throw caution to the wind, if you please, though.
You can build a Westinghouse AP1000 advanced light water reactor at around $1400 per kilowatt, assuming you build 2 at a site. That includes design, engineering, and licensing for the first two plants. Cost for 200 megawatts would be only 280 million, and would take up far far less than 25,000 acres.
I'll assume your numbers are correct, and then that's $1.4 million/megawatt and $1.3 million/megawatt. So it's a roughly twice as expensive as building a standard power plant.
A couple of thoughts I have:
1) There won't be the additional running costs of coal, so over the long haul, this could be cheaper.. unless it gets really expensive to maintain somehow.
2) When you said dollars, are all of your dollar ammounts in US dollars? Or are they all in Au dollars? Or as some in US dollars and some in Au dollars?
3) How does the land use of this compare to other clean power sources? IE, is the watt/sq meter ratio better or worse for this project than standard photovoltaic cells? How about watt/sq meter compared to the average wind farm?
What exactly in my post were you replying to??
Dvorak has pretty much not uttered anything remotely competent or accurate since inventing Ethernet.
Dvorak invented ethernet??
Dvorak says microsoft can sell a driver layer plugin for Linux based on the idea that vendors will only support the MS driver layer. Likely what would happen if MS in any way supported linux is that more hardware developers would support linux directly, taking away the power MS would have temporarily gained by using a driver layer.
Well, there's a long way and a short way.
Shortway:
Steal someones card. Put it in your wallet, buy things. They won't ask for ID cause that will slow down the process (and they hardly ever do now anyway). If it's less than $25 there's no paper trail, either. This will work until the person realized their card is missing and reports it stolen. Esentially the same as the present, but at least now they're supposed to verify your identity by comparing signatures or checking for ID... at least there's SOME verification to prevent a stolen card that should occure.
Longway:
1) Use a small device about the size of a palm pilot to send someone's credit card a serious of a few hundred to a few thousand challanges and not the responce that's given back.
2) Go back to your computer and crunch the challange vs responce to determine the algorithm used to provide each.
3) Plug that algorithm into a generic battery powered tranciever about the size a palm pilot let the reader scan that rather than a wall encased credit card.
Steps 1 and 2 will be possible eventually (using the same methods that cracked TIs method, I'm sure) and eventually someone will make the nessicary hardware for step 3, or at least post instructions on the internet on how to build one with a PIC and some other cheap hardware.
The teller will never know if you're scanning a wallet with a credit card inside, or a wallet with a small battery powered tranciever inside.
The problem is not that this system is less secure than magstrips (it's about a million times more secure right now) The problem is that the teller never has to see your card to verify your identy. They won't know if it's your card in the wallet or purse you swing past the reader, or someone elses, or even a device that randomly picks 1 of 30 peoples identities you got off the subway the week before. I wouldn't be concerned, but since the TI thing just a few weeks ago, I'm not sure how much I can trust RFID based challange response systems. The TI solution cracked was supposedly one of the best out there.
First, the person will probably use the same passphrase for everything because it's too difficult to remember multiple passphrases. ... Phone numbers (In the US, at least) are limited to
10 digits because research shows the average person can only memorize 10 digits
People are good at memorizing 10 cognative units. The length of the cognive unit varies from person to person. In a password, it's likely to be 10 random characters. In a passphrase it can easily be 10 words or ever 10 sentences. The draw for passphrases is that they are EASIER to remember, yet longer, so more difficult to brute force.
Don't you have a favorite quote from a book or movie? You could even just use a random sentence in a book, and instead of memorizing "A4#$%(83bd;" (or rather, putting it on a post-it note under your desk,) you just remember "Head First Java, page 14, 5th sentence."
Another neat thing about passphrases that you can't do with randomly selected "good" passwords is create accronyms to help you remember.
What do the Slashdot "editors" do, again?
Select which stories are posted and which aren't. There're not really editors so much as minimal quality control (remove boring articles and occasionally dupes)
Have you heard Cepstral David?
Sorry, I meant Speech Recognition in ever spot I said Text to Speech. I could care less how much a computer can sound like a person if it can't understand what I say.
owever, an EULA isn't a legal contract, and causing an animation of a button depress on a TV screen isn't legally binding either.
Are you so sure about that?
EULAs have been tested, and enforced,many times many times in court. Shrink-wrapped EULAs ("You agree by opening this box to... even though you haven't seen the agreement yet") might little easier to circumvent through a court case, but even those are valid contracts.
You don't need to sign every contract with a pen. People sign the FAFSA all the time without ever touching a mouse, and verbal contracts are also seen as legally binding in many places.
Hasn't anyone ever read Andromeda?? Don't thaw them out!!
The frozen bacteria they find on mars could have been what killed those little dudes we used to see in movies all of the time, but strangley don't anymore. (Last time I saw them was in Mars Attacks, and they were obvious fakes..)
Honestly i wouldn't care if all the ad-supported content left the internet.
I'm not sure I could handle a life where ALL of the ad-supported (ie Slashdot) content left the internet...
Salon.com requires a soul-sucking registration link.
r al+privacy+board/2100-1028_3-5587653.html?tag=nefd .top">CNet also has it, and I like them better because of reason X</a> probably would have been more appropriate (unless you're worried *.com.com.com is going to cave under the pressure.
Dude... the link was to salon's RSS feeder... there was no registration when I clicked on the link, and I haven't been to salon's website in months (that is, two reformat's ago.
Secondly, a simple <a href="http://news.com.com/Adware+maker+joins+fede
Why didn't I have this software during High School Spanish?
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It says it can scan through audio files an input source. I wonder if this causes it to "learn" the auditory signatures (and thus only knows the translation when given audio input), or if it relies on text to speech from to convert it to text first?
If it does the latter, than based on the quality of current text-to-speech software, this probably wouldn't do much good in a total immersion classroom situation...
Sure would have helped with my German homework, though
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