Why not a split solution then? One probelm with free internet access is people will come in off the street and stay on for a looong time. And typing a paper can tie up a machine that could be used to serve 3-4 "quick internet patrons" in the same amount of time.
At my library, the internet terminals and the word processing computers are separate. That makes a lot of sense I feel.
Internet experience is more the browser than the OS. At my library, the browser is a public kiosk style browser. The machines may be Windows computers, and the window may say "Internet Explorer", but the browsing experience is nothing like IE. Why expose those machine to risk on the net?
Take the "Internet" terminals, run a stable, secure linux distro with Mozilla or a full featured broswer built for use in such situations.
The separate "office" machine can run something stable with low eye-candy overhead, say Win2000. Add on MS Office. Now we have our familiar Windows experience for the other stuff But NOT HAVE INTERNET ACCESS. Keep them on a separate lan or a subnet off the internet connection. Access to printers, but not viruses and spyware.
$40,000 is probably the minumum to be considered "properly insured" by the state. It's a cap in this case if the charges were anything more I guess the victim would have to sue you to get anything else.
It's really not that much differnet than regular automotive insurance if I remember how insurance is supposed to work as my agent explained it. They all have ratings like "50-100-50" where the numbers are limits in thousands of dollars the insurance companies will cover.
The first number is the limit for one vehicle I believe, the second is the total limit for the accident if you're responsible for multiple cars being damaged, and I forgot what the third number goes with. I don't have my insurance policy in front of me since I'm at work right now. There's a separate set of numbers for medical costs and another for un/underinsured drivers (which I've been meaning to ask more about out of curiosity).
Anyway, the 50-100-50 just happens to be my level, but I could get it as 25-50-25 as well (the minumum in Kansas), which would in theory limit property damage for one car to $25,000 (the benefit to me being a lower premium, or maybe it was the deductable?). So I guess if I hit a Mercedes and had the 25-50-25 coverage and totaled the car the owner would get the max he could out of my insurance company and then I would either be automatically responsible or get sued for the rest (which I would lose if it was shown to be my fault to begin with).
Nah, they're just show up as part of the semi-annual Book Sales they hold. I predict $4 and under prices for all the discs they sell.
People will wait for the last couple days of the books sales when they have 'half-price' and then 'bag price' days (the sales usually run 5-8 days total). Folks ignorant of the (lack of) value in the CD's will buy thenm buy the dozen, and try to sell them to local used music retailers.
The music retailers will maybe buy a couple copies, but when they realize how many there are people will start getting turned away. The CD's will ultimately end up at garage sales for a quarter, gettig recyled through the process a couple more times, or in the trash.
Dumb part of this is while Kline is trying to censor what come into the libraries, he hasn't been looking at what's already there.
I live in Kansas and our library's collection of audio CD's is mostly stuff nobody under 30 would be interested in. Lots of broadway musical scores, classical records that can be bought for $3-$8 in Wal-Mart because they are in Public Domain, ect.
Anyway, there's a small collection of "Pop" music, and I know there's a copy of Slipknot's Iowa in there, and there's some RATM, too. So it's already in circulation in Kansas.
Maybe the collection of discs is mostly unsellable stuff. But the lists of artists being blocked right now sounds a lot more interesting than reports of several thousand CDs of Whitney Housten singing the Star Spangled banner like other states are getting.
It's not the artists' best works, but it sounds like we got some of the better giveaways. I say let them in since we're not getting any choices.
When I first saw the headline about the discs getting rejected, I thought Kline was rejecting the settlement discs because they were tons of crap like the other states had been getting. What a letdown when I read the story.:(
DUH. Because the record companies don't want to pay out any money. So they offer free CD's to the states in an amount they say is equal to the value of such albums if the libraries were to buy them for their collections from a retail store. And for some reason, a judge and the AG's were not smart enough to figure out what a bunch of geeks on Slashdot saw a mile away.
The problem is by giving away CD's rather then money as previous posters have pointed out:
1) The libraries don't get to pick what they get. So who cares if they are getting the same "value" in merchandise, they don't buy stuff people aren't interested in, so the discs are a waste.
2) The record company loses far less money themselves, the libraries get the same "market value" but since they are getting the CD's direct the record companies are only losing their own costs on the deal, not full value.
Plus, the record companies get to get rid of unsellable stock.
So, gee I wonder why the record companies don't give them the money...
I'm sure they didn't do it on purpose. They simply didn't see the new mail notifictaion icon in the system tray with that King of Clubs that had just come up in deck.
Well you can take off your conspiracy theory hat, I simply didn't notice the other flaw.
The one I saw was more apparent since the refrence line for 20fps was more visible in relation to the end of the ATI graph bar than the edge of the graph background is to the nVidia bar.
These mistakes would have probably not happened had the authors used simple two dimensional graphs. But you know how much easier it is to understand numbers when they are in (psuedo) three dimensions.
"That is not the fault of the universities, you know? It's the students who are demanding these things and acting as if they were "customers" of their education experience."
Funny you use that exact wording. I was standing outside the Union last week and some parents were nearby (it's orientation week). One was talking about how she had to go see the registar to get her child's schedule "fixed" because they had made "a big mess of it with the classes they had her taking."
"I told her, 'Honey, don't let them tell you what to take. We are spending thousands of dollars here, we are their customers'," she said to another parent.
I can see parents saying "you need to provide a legal way for our kids to listen to music to keep them from downloading things illegally and getting into trouble."
"But it has been hijacked by some unscrupulous operators who have constructed a business model predicated on the taking of property financed by my member companies."
As far as I am aware, BitTorrent has no true business model. I got the software legally and without cost.
Hmmmm, couldn't the same be said about Internet Explorer?
"They are havens for pornographers that project their filth into your homes when your kids innocently seek to find their favorite artists."
Yes, news at 6, your children are affected by porno!
Realy just a continuation of that popular FUD internet stereotype: The internet is a service where as soon as you launch it graphic imagry is shown with you having no control of it. Followed by IM's by pedophiles and phone calls from banks that your accounts have suddenly been emptied by people in the Caymen Islands.
Now look today. Our LOW END personal computers come with HUNDREDS of megabytes of RAM, hundreds of MIPS, tens or hundreds of gigabytes of disk storage, and several million pixels. (The limit on pixels is what you can get onto a display and refresh at a reasonable rate.)
What limited these guys to "only" four users per PC wasn't processing power or video bandwidth. It was the number of PCI video cards they could physically stuff into a PC motherboard.
Hmmmmmmm...
But with a developing market in developing countries, no major manufacturer seems interested in building a motherboard with multiple (4-8) AGP card slots. I wonder why?
"Honey, do you think we really need to have four separate PC's in this house for our family's needs?"
Kinda like when using Google was cool, because everyone else was using Yahoo or Lycos.
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Remember, this a virtual pinball machine customized by people to match the real thing. At least, you don't have to repair these emulations.;)
Also, you need Windows for them.
Doesn't the third statement mean the second will eventually be proven untrue.
Eventually, I bet you'll be able to pick up a "phone", say "New York City, Michael Joseph Smith and Mary Ellen Smith", and have it connect you.
Yup, for a more personal touch they could have a human answer the phone, though. So to make a call, all I have to do is pick up the handset, turn the cran--- er push the "talk" button and say "Hey, connect me to (insert name).":-)
Being able to get a spell checker by upgrading both IE and OE for free (soul sucking EULAs are free, right?) has convinced me that I need to run out and buy Windows XP for all six of my computers.
Really, your reactionary post makes no sense. IE/OE6 is a free upgrade, as you said. And can be installed on even Win98 (maybe 95, too). I don't know why you keep getting and extra point added to your post score. So far, all you've stated is that Microsoft's free email client does not have a spell checker, which isn't true.
I'm not trying to defend OE as a great email client. I use Firefox and Thunderbird for my internet apps.
I'll also have to learn to use Microsoft's firewall and how to make it work on a 486.
Is setting up a firewall on Linux as easy as checking a single checkbox? You comments are becoming more ironic.
[i]I can't vouch for XP, but I suspect that you have to buy Office to get a spell checker there too.[/i]
No, I have a spell checker on my OE, and I'm using WinXP. As far as I know there's always been a spell checker on OE, there is on the Win98 machines I play around with at work. If it didn't come with the version of OE on Win2000, updating to IE/OE6 would probably add it.
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The article says the case would be illuminated by R, G and B colored lights, so it could be any color of the spectrum.
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Well, according to another story on the front page today:
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/16/1418207.sht
The RGB model only covers 55% of the visible spectrum, they would have to use MPC to reach 95% of the spectrum.
Why not a split solution then? One probelm with free internet access is people will come in off the street and stay on for a looong time. And typing a paper can tie up a machine that could be used to serve 3-4 "quick internet patrons" in the same amount of time.
At my library, the internet terminals and the word processing computers are separate. That makes a lot of sense I feel.
Internet experience is more the browser than the OS. At my library, the browser is a public kiosk style browser. The machines may be Windows computers, and the window may say "Internet Explorer", but the browsing experience is nothing like IE. Why expose those machine to risk on the net?
Take the "Internet" terminals, run a stable, secure linux distro with Mozilla or a full featured broswer built for use in such situations.
The separate "office" machine can run something stable with low eye-candy overhead, say Win2000. Add on MS Office. Now we have our familiar Windows experience for the other stuff But NOT HAVE INTERNET ACCESS. Keep them on a separate lan or a subnet off the internet connection. Access to printers, but not viruses and spyware.
$40,000 is probably the minumum to be considered "properly insured" by the state. It's a cap in this case if the charges were anything more I guess the victim would have to sue you to get anything else.
It's really not that much differnet than regular automotive insurance if I remember how insurance is supposed to work as my agent explained it. They all have ratings like "50-100-50" where the numbers are limits in thousands of dollars the insurance companies will cover.
The first number is the limit for one vehicle I believe, the second is the total limit for the accident if you're responsible for multiple cars being damaged, and I forgot what the third number goes with. I don't have my insurance policy in front of me since I'm at work right now. There's a separate set of numbers for medical costs and another for un/underinsured drivers (which I've been meaning to ask more about out of curiosity).
Anyway, the 50-100-50 just happens to be my level, but I could get it as 25-50-25 as well (the minumum in Kansas), which would in theory limit property damage for one car to $25,000 (the benefit to me being a lower premium, or maybe it was the deductable?). So I guess if I hit a Mercedes and had the 25-50-25 coverage and totaled the car the owner would get the max he could out of my insurance company and then I would either be automatically responsible or get sued for the rest (which I would lose if it was shown to be my fault to begin with).
GW Bush is censoring free speech because NBC won't let Michael Moore use a clip from Meet the Press.
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BZZT! Sorry, but that is incorrect. It is not Micheal Moore, but another Iraqi War documentary maker: Robert Greenwald, who is trying to use the clip.
Source: This editorial from Wired about, not-ironically, big media and copyrights suppressing democracy.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.08/view.htm
Nah, they're just show up as part of the semi-annual Book Sales they hold. I predict $4 and under prices for all the discs they sell.
People will wait for the last couple days of the books sales when they have 'half-price' and then 'bag price' days (the sales usually run 5-8 days total). Folks ignorant of the (lack of) value in the CD's will buy thenm buy the dozen, and try to sell them to local used music retailers.
The music retailers will maybe buy a couple copies, but when they realize how many there are people will start getting turned away. The CD's will ultimately end up at garage sales for a quarter, gettig recyled through the process a couple more times, or in the trash.
Dumb part of this is while Kline is trying to censor what come into the libraries, he hasn't been looking at what's already there.
:(
I live in Kansas and our library's collection of audio CD's is mostly stuff nobody under 30 would be interested in. Lots of broadway musical scores, classical records that can be bought for $3-$8 in Wal-Mart because they are in Public Domain, ect.
Anyway, there's a small collection of "Pop" music, and I know there's a copy of Slipknot's Iowa in there, and there's some RATM, too. So it's already in circulation in Kansas.
Maybe the collection of discs is mostly unsellable stuff. But the lists of artists being blocked right now sounds a lot more interesting than reports of several thousand CDs of Whitney Housten singing the Star Spangled banner like other states are getting.
It's not the artists' best works, but it sounds like we got some of the better giveaways. I say let them in since we're not getting any choices.
When I first saw the headline about the discs getting rejected, I thought Kline was rejecting the settlement discs because they were tons of crap like the other states had been getting. What a letdown when I read the story.
DUH. Because the record companies don't want to pay out any money. So they offer free CD's to the states in an amount they say is equal to the value of such albums if the libraries were to buy them for their collections from a retail store. And for some reason, a judge and the AG's were not smart enough to figure out what a bunch of geeks on Slashdot saw a mile away.
The problem is by giving away CD's rather then money as previous posters have pointed out:
1) The libraries don't get to pick what they get. So who cares if they are getting the same "value" in merchandise, they don't buy stuff people aren't interested in, so the discs are a waste.
2) The record company loses far less money themselves, the libraries get the same "market value" but since they are getting the CD's direct the record companies are only losing their own costs on the deal, not full value.
Plus, the record companies get to get rid of unsellable stock.
So, gee I wonder why the record companies don't give them the money...
60 WPM isn't necessary. 25 would be better than hunt-and-peck.
I don't know how to touch type, but I can hunt and peck up to 35 wpm.
But a grid's very strength -- its distibuted nature -- makes it vulnerable, indeed, they're finding.
Ewwww, awkward!
Better: But the grid's very strength, its distributed nature, makes it more vulnerable to these types of attacks.
Or: However, they're finding the grid's strength -- its distributed nature -- makes it vulnerable.
This is one of those times dramatizing a sentence makes it worse.
"emails to higher up supervisors were ignored..."
I'm sure they didn't do it on purpose. They simply didn't see the new mail notifictaion icon in the system tray with that King of Clubs that had just come up in deck.
Well you can take off your conspiracy theory hat, I simply didn't notice the other flaw.
The one I saw was more apparent since the refrence line for 20fps was more visible in relation to the end of the ATI graph bar than the edge of the graph background is to the nVidia bar.
These mistakes would have probably not happened had the authors used simple two dimensional graphs. But you know how much easier it is to understand numbers when they are in (psuedo) three dimensions.
I have no incentive to continue my Hit-remote-button-get-a-piece-of-cheese machine.
If you look at the table here
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you can see the ATI X800 Pro performs 21.5 fps yet the graph bar is clearly not extending past the 20fps threashhold on the graph backing.
Apple isn't pushing their Rendezvous on *nix and Windows users.
Really? So what does that Renezvous SDK they released last week for Windows and Linux do then?
"That is not the fault of the universities, you know? It's the students who are demanding these things and acting as if they were "customers" of their education experience."
Funny you use that exact wording. I was standing outside the Union last week and some parents were nearby (it's orientation week). One was talking about how she had to go see the registar to get her child's schedule "fixed" because they had made "a big mess of it with the classes they had her taking."
"I told her, 'Honey, don't let them tell you what to take. We are spending thousands of dollars here, we are their customers'," she said to another parent.
I can see parents saying "you need to provide a legal way for our kids to listen to music to keep them from downloading things illegally and getting into trouble."
"But it has been hijacked by some unscrupulous operators who have constructed a business model predicated on the taking of property financed by my member companies."
As far as I am aware, BitTorrent has no true business model. I got the software legally and without cost.
Hmmmm, couldn't the same be said about Internet Explorer?
"They are havens for pornographers that project their filth into your homes when your kids innocently seek to find their favorite artists."
Yes, news at 6, your children are affected by porno!
Realy just a continuation of that popular FUD internet stereotype: The internet is a service where as soon as you launch it graphic imagry is shown with you having no control of it. Followed by IM's by pedophiles and phone calls from banks that your accounts have suddenly been emptied by people in the Caymen Islands.
The impression mass media gives of the Net.
g) All your drones belongs to us.
Actually, many call centers have access to the ANI numbers, so they can't be fooled this easily.
Now look today. Our LOW END personal computers come with HUNDREDS of megabytes of RAM, hundreds of MIPS, tens or hundreds of gigabytes of disk storage, and several million pixels. (The limit on pixels is what you can get onto a display and refresh at a reasonable rate.)
What limited these guys to "only" four users per PC wasn't processing power or video bandwidth. It was the number of PCI video cards they could physically stuff into a PC motherboard.
Hmmmmmmm...
But with a developing market in developing countries, no major manufacturer seems interested in building a motherboard with multiple (4-8) AGP card slots. I wonder why?
"Honey, do you think we really need to have four separate PC's in this house for our family's needs?"
Kinda like when using Google was cool, because everyone else was using Yahoo or Lycos.
Remember, this a virtual pinball machine customized by people to match the real thing. At least, you don't have to repair these emulations. ;)
Also, you need Windows for them.
Doesn't the third statement mean the second will eventually be proven untrue.
Eventually, I bet you'll be able to pick up a "phone", say "New York City, Michael Joseph Smith and Mary Ellen Smith", and have it connect you.
:-)
Yup, for a more personal touch they could have a human answer the phone, though. So to make a call, all I have to do is pick up the handset, turn the cran--- er push the "talk" button and say "Hey, connect me to (insert name)."
Being able to get a spell checker by upgrading both IE and OE for free (soul sucking EULAs are free, right?) has convinced me that I need to run out and buy Windows XP for all six of my computers.
Really, your reactionary post makes no sense. IE/OE6 is a free upgrade, as you said. And can be installed on even Win98 (maybe 95, too). I don't know why you keep getting and extra point added to your post score. So far, all you've stated is that Microsoft's free email client does not have a spell checker, which isn't true.
I'm not trying to defend OE as a great email client. I use Firefox and Thunderbird for my internet apps.
I'll also have to learn to use Microsoft's firewall and how to make it work on a 486.
Is setting up a firewall on Linux as easy as checking a single checkbox? You comments are becoming more ironic.
[i]I can't vouch for XP, but I suspect that you have to buy Office to get a spell checker there too.[/i] No, I have a spell checker on my OE, and I'm using WinXP. As far as I know there's always been a spell checker on OE, there is on the Win98 machines I play around with at work. If it didn't come with the version of OE on Win2000, updating to IE/OE6 would probably add it.
What do you get with Windoze, a mail client that lacks a spell checker?
Um, what are you talking about? Outlook Express has a spell checker.