My land line and cell phone are both on ATT. To keep bills low, I don't have long distance (or anything else) on my land line, and I make sure never to go over my minutes on my cell plan (Giving credit where credit is due, the rollover minutes [which I did not have with verizon] do help to make this possible.
So, if I am at home, I use Google voice to make out going calls via my land line. I can call anywhere in the country for free, and I'm not using my cell minutes.
I can see why ATT is mad about GV, and all I can say is "Ha Ha!"
I am a San Francisco Photographer. After every wedding I shoot I put a gallery of photos online. They are low resolution proofs, but it is over 1,000 photos per wedding usually, so they ad up after a while. I am usually bumping against my storage limits with my host (inmotion hosting, whom I've been happy with)
So, the other day, I finish a corporate job, and I'm putting all high resolution of the photos online in a big zip file. I log into my cpanel to check if it puts me over my limit and I see "Disk Space Usage 35319.49/ MB"
I could not believe what I was reading. I called the host, and I'm all like "It says I have unlimited storage" and the guy says "that's right" and I just sit there on the phone waiting for the catch. Finally he's like "um, are you done?" I'm paying all of $120 a year for this plan.
I could use this for offsite backup if only AT&T had better upload speeds.
They have these where I live in Oakland, CA, and they are not nearly so bad as the summary would have you think.
For 1, the summary was complaining about the rates, which is not a fair indictment of the meter. The other complaint, that you have to walk to the meter and back to your car, it is not that big of a deal. Trust me.
On the upside, getting to use a credit card over coins is a BIG win. Who caries coins any more?
Vuojo,
In any one place the wind is not always blowing. On the earth, the wind is always blowing somewhere. If you spread the turbines out as suggested in this report, you could in fact have a 100% reliable source of power.
It is common for western rationalists to consider that the mind is an epiphenomenon of the brain. However, it could be just the opposite. It could be that matter is an epiphenomenon of mind. I'm not saying I know this to be true, but it is an interesting thought experiment.
Another common fallacy in thinking of these matters, most people still hold a Newtonian world view of matter. People think that matter is solid, real, undeniable, touchable stuff (as compared to ephemeral unreal things like the mind, emotions, the soul)
However, a modern view of matter shows that it is just as ephemeral strange and undefinable as mind. At it's best, matter is really just a stable pattern of energy.
At the end of the year, you get a check with your dividend, and you get your share of the waste. Cash the check, but you (and your children, and your grandchildren etc..) have to keep the waste in your house until it is safe.
As someone who has been fretting about the environment for quite some time, and a firm believer that only business had the power to get us out of this mess since the 80's, it's a hopeful time for me.
As gas stays above $3.00 a gallon, people, and businesses and organizations and governments who don't give a rats ass about the environment are going to start looking around at ways to save or make money.
Now, I'm not a complete libertarian on this issue. I think regulation from the feds can really help move things along, provide clarity for the markets, and jump start change. However, more and more, people are waking up to the idea that if the wait for the feds to force them to change, they are going to be behind.
Boeing is a good example here. They are kicking some Airbus ass right now, just by building a plane that uses less fuel. Maybe the boards and stockholders of airlines care about the enviornment, and maybe they don't, but they all care about making money, and the can all see that saving money on fuel is a no-brainer.
Actually it was a host and not an ISP, but without my consent, knowledge or permission, the turned my 404 page into some random spammy advertisement for some other company. They could not understand why I was mad (or maybe they could, but they would not admit it). I wish I could remember who they were so I could bad mouth them by name. Needless to say, I quit their service and never looked back.
I can't believe that you got modded as Flamebait. I'm a Mac fanboy. I love Macs, I'd never buy anything else, and I don't even care if they are more expensive or cheaper or whatever. But that doesn't mean someone saying that businesses using PC's is flame.
I just wanted you to know that not every mac fan thinks every anti mac thought is flame.
Say for example I have an email conversation with a client or a potential client. Latter I may need to find one of those emails to see what has been said. In Entourage, (a Mac only version of Outlook that I'm embarrassed to say I really like [Please don't quote me saying I like a Microsoft product]) I have a few choices. In a search box on the top left I can select "Email From" and enter the clients name or email, and only email from them is showing. (Do other email clients do this? This feature works a lot like iTunes. If I was in my main music folder and entered NIN, then only songs with NIN in one of the fields would show.) I can select one of their emails and organize all emails by sender to have theirs all together, or I can do a global search by their name, or some keyword I remember from their email if I don't remember their name. Many ways to get to the email I am looking for. I find this much easier than putting every client in their own folder, as these folders are harder to search for than the emails, and I don't have to bother with creating 1,000's of folders (I do lot of weddings. Most of my clients I work for once and then never again. Between brides I have conversations with and don't book, and the 100 or so clients I do book every year, 1,000's is not an exaggeration)
My "sent items" has 26,272 emails in it. My inbox only has 9,876 emails (7 unread, 59 flagged for follow up.) I'm not sure how many other folders of filed emails I have, or how many emails are in them, but I do know that I automatically back up the entire thing every night while I sleep, and the back up file is 6.1 GB.
This system is great. So many things I am not forced to remember, My email is like a supplemental digital memory for my brain, that is searchable by keyword, sent to, received from, and date.
I owe a lot of this to "Spamfire", my stand alone spam filter tat catches about 500 spam a day, and only lets in 10 or so spam a day, while almost never stopping a false positive. (I wish it could tell the difference from a legitimate Pay Pal email and a fishing attempt.)
My subject title "Never throw anything away" is a bit overstated, but then again, I only empty the trash in the email a few times a year, so for a long time the things I have thrown away are still available and searchable.
FTS "but given that most people resize images to put on Flickr..."
Most people? Could that possibly be true? Lets even grant that they meant "most photographers in the developed world" (and not most people on the planet.) Does anyone else think that most photographers do NOT use flickr? I've never used it, but I will grant that I am not representative of most people.
My Aunt Marge in Cleveland, she has always seemed the person I know who is most like "most people." She's like a one woman focus group on the "middle" of the country, politically, geographically, and socially. She's never used it either. What do you think? I think whomever said "but given that most people resize images to put on Flickr" need to put the cap back on the glue bottle, but I'd love to hear other opinions.
Yeah, it's worse than that. This is the notice I got in the movies section. "it looks like your system doesn't meet the Minimum System Requirements. You can still purchase this title here, but please note that you may only watch it on a Windows XP computer meeting the requirements."
Totally. I come home with a few GB of data from a photo shoot, and it goes onto the main drive on my computer. Then I back it up to TWO SEPARATE drives, not a RAID of two drives, two independent drives. Eventually, when the drive on my computer fills up, I transfer the files from there onto a DVD and bring it off site. Not only does this method protect me from drive failure, it protects me from user error. For example, if I am working on a photo, convert it to black and white and accidentally "save" instead of "save as," if I had RAID, I would still be out of luck. With my system, I can go to the other back-up and pull the unaltered file off. BTW I'm on a mac, and I use Deja Vu for my backups.
"The guy's statements make him sound a little... er... paranoid and wacked out himself."
Thank you. Also not a fan of Scientology, but just the idea that this guy had the time to protest them makes me suspicious of him. Didn't he have anything better to do besides picket a bunch of sad loonies?
I've watched people use the internet. They really don't understand the address bar.
Re:Attempt to Get Death Penalty for Zacarias Mouss
on
2006's Bill of Wrongs
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· Score: 5, Interesting
That reminds me of this guy the featured on the Public Radio show "This American Life." He was convicted of a murder he did not commit, so during the penalty faze of his trial he did everything he could to get the death penalty. His logic, if he was wrongly convicted to life in prison, nobody would give a s**t and he would rot in jail forever. If he was wrongly sentenced to death, some liberal lawyer would take up his case and exonerate him. The amazing thing is the plan worked. He convinced the jury to fry him and he found a liberal lawyer to overturn his conviction.
Attempt to Get Death Penalty for Zacarias Moussaou
on
2006's Bill of Wrongs
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
I was please that he did not get the death peanalty primarily because he so obviously WANTED to get the death penalty. The man wanted to die, and I'm glad he was not given his wish.
I remember a few years ago, this company licensed a Haiku to put in the email headers. If the Haiku was there, you were automatically white listed in various spam filters. If you used the Haiku without paying the licensed, you could be sued not for spam, but for copyright infringement. I wonder if they still exist. Anyway, small businesses were priced out of the system. If you weren't sending 1,000,000 emails a month, don't bother calling them because you can't afford it. It seemed like such a stupid way to do business in an internet age. I'd pay.05 to make sure an email made it to a client. Oh well.
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My land line and cell phone are both on ATT. To keep bills low, I don't have long distance (or anything else) on my land line, and I make sure never to go over my minutes on my cell plan (Giving credit where credit is due, the rollover minutes [which I did not have with verizon] do help to make this possible. So, if I am at home, I use Google voice to make out going calls via my land line. I can call anywhere in the country for free, and I'm not using my cell minutes. I can see why ATT is mad about GV, and all I can say is "Ha Ha!"
I am a San Francisco Photographer. After every wedding I shoot I put a gallery of photos online. They are low resolution proofs, but it is over 1,000 photos per wedding usually, so they ad up after a while. I am usually bumping against my storage limits with my host (inmotion hosting, whom I've been happy with) So, the other day, I finish a corporate job, and I'm putting all high resolution of the photos online in a big zip file. I log into my cpanel to check if it puts me over my limit and I see "Disk Space Usage 35319.49/ MB" I could not believe what I was reading. I called the host, and I'm all like "It says I have unlimited storage" and the guy says "that's right" and I just sit there on the phone waiting for the catch. Finally he's like "um, are you done?" I'm paying all of $120 a year for this plan. I could use this for offsite backup if only AT&T had better upload speeds.
They have these where I live in Oakland, CA, and they are not nearly so bad as the summary would have you think. For 1, the summary was complaining about the rates, which is not a fair indictment of the meter. The other complaint, that you have to walk to the meter and back to your car, it is not that big of a deal. Trust me. On the upside, getting to use a credit card over coins is a BIG win. Who caries coins any more?
Vuojo, In any one place the wind is not always blowing. On the earth, the wind is always blowing somewhere. If you spread the turbines out as suggested in this report, you could in fact have a 100% reliable source of power.
It is common for western rationalists to consider that the mind is an epiphenomenon of the brain. However, it could be just the opposite. It could be that matter is an epiphenomenon of mind. I'm not saying I know this to be true, but it is an interesting thought experiment. Another common fallacy in thinking of these matters, most people still hold a Newtonian world view of matter. People think that matter is solid, real, undeniable, touchable stuff (as compared to ephemeral unreal things like the mind, emotions, the soul) However, a modern view of matter shows that it is just as ephemeral strange and undefinable as mind. At it's best, matter is really just a stable pattern of energy.
Take a big fat sharpie and blacked out all account and SS #'s. Really.
write it down and hide it
However, that does not mean bio fuel is a bad idea, for example, using algae to make bio fuel has been covered again and again here on /.
A short summary of the benefits:
50x yield per acre over grown crops.
Can scrub CO2 from power plants
Can benefit from waste heat from power plants.
Can be grown above ground in industrial settings.
Can scrub pollution from agricultural water (fertilizers, feedlots) before the pollution makes it downstream.
Mutant Algae to Fuel Cars of Tomorrow?
Boeing Helping to Develop Algae-Powered Jet
Newest Energy Source -- Pond Scum
Bio-diesel Made from Sewage
Algae That Cleans Emissions and Produces Fuel
Filling Up On Algae
Renewable Energy From Algae?
At the end of the year, you get a check with your dividend, and you get your share of the waste. Cash the check, but you (and your children, and your grandchildren etc..) have to keep the waste in your house until it is safe.
As gas stays above $3.00 a gallon, people, and businesses and organizations and governments who don't give a rats ass about the environment are going to start looking around at ways to save or make money.
Now, I'm not a complete libertarian on this issue. I think regulation from the feds can really help move things along, provide clarity for the markets, and jump start change. However, more and more, people are waking up to the idea that if the wait for the feds to force them to change, they are going to be behind.
Boeing is a good example here. They are kicking some Airbus ass right now, just by building a plane that uses less fuel. Maybe the boards and stockholders of airlines care about the enviornment, and maybe they don't, but they all care about making money, and the can all see that saving money on fuel is a no-brainer.
Actually it was a host and not an ISP, but without my consent, knowledge or permission, the turned my 404 page into some random spammy advertisement for some other company. They could not understand why I was mad (or maybe they could, but they would not admit it). I wish I could remember who they were so I could bad mouth them by name. Needless to say, I quit their service and never looked back.
I just wanted you to know that not every mac fan thinks every anti mac thought is flame.
Say for example I have an email conversation with a client or a potential client. Latter I may need to find one of those emails to see what has been said. In Entourage, (a Mac only version of Outlook that I'm embarrassed to say I really like [Please don't quote me saying I like a Microsoft product]) I have a few choices. In a search box on the top left I can select "Email From" and enter the clients name or email, and only email from them is showing. (Do other email clients do this? This feature works a lot like iTunes. If I was in my main music folder and entered NIN, then only songs with NIN in one of the fields would show.) I can select one of their emails and organize all emails by sender to have theirs all together, or I can do a global search by their name, or some keyword I remember from their email if I don't remember their name. Many ways to get to the email I am looking for. I find this much easier than putting every client in their own folder, as these folders are harder to search for than the emails, and I don't have to bother with creating 1,000's of folders (I do lot of weddings. Most of my clients I work for once and then never again. Between brides I have conversations with and don't book, and the 100 or so clients I do book every year, 1,000's is not an exaggeration)
My "sent items" has 26,272 emails in it. My inbox only has 9,876 emails (7 unread, 59 flagged for follow up.) I'm not sure how many other folders of filed emails I have, or how many emails are in them, but I do know that I automatically back up the entire thing every night while I sleep, and the back up file is 6.1 GB. This system is great. So many things I am not forced to remember, My email is like a supplemental digital memory for my brain, that is searchable by keyword, sent to, received from, and date. I owe a lot of this to "Spamfire", my stand alone spam filter tat catches about 500 spam a day, and only lets in 10 or so spam a day, while almost never stopping a false positive. (I wish it could tell the difference from a legitimate Pay Pal email and a fishing attempt.) My subject title "Never throw anything away" is a bit overstated, but then again, I only empty the trash in the email a few times a year, so for a long time the things I have thrown away are still available and searchable.
You did not deserve a flame mod.
13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640
or this one
1001 11111001 00010001 00000010 10011101 01110100 11100011 01011011 11011000 01000001 01010110 11000101 01100011 01010110 10001000 11000000
Most people? Could that possibly be true? Lets even grant that they meant "most photographers in the developed world" (and not most people on the planet.) Does anyone else think that most photographers do NOT use flickr? I've never used it, but I will grant that I am not representative of most people.
My Aunt Marge in Cleveland, she has always seemed the person I know who is most like "most people." She's like a one woman focus group on the "middle" of the country, politically, geographically, and socially. She's never used it either. What do you think? I think whomever said "but given that most people resize images to put on Flickr" need to put the cap back on the glue bottle, but I'd love to hear other opinions.
Yeah, it's worse than that. This is the notice I got in the movies section. "it looks like your system doesn't meet the Minimum System Requirements. You can still purchase this title here, but please note that you may only watch it on a Windows XP computer meeting the requirements."
Totally. I come home with a few GB of data from a photo shoot, and it goes onto the main drive on my computer. Then I back it up to TWO SEPARATE drives, not a RAID of two drives, two independent drives. Eventually, when the drive on my computer fills up, I transfer the files from there onto a DVD and bring it off site. Not only does this method protect me from drive failure, it protects me from user error. For example, if I am working on a photo, convert it to black and white and accidentally "save" instead of "save as," if I had RAID, I would still be out of luck. With my system, I can go to the other back-up and pull the unaltered file off. BTW I'm on a mac, and I use Deja Vu for my backups.
Thank you. Also not a fan of Scientology, but just the idea that this guy had the time to protest them makes me suspicious of him. Didn't he have anything better to do besides picket a bunch of sad loonies?
I've watched people use the internet. They really don't understand the address bar.
That reminds me of this guy the featured on the Public Radio show "This American Life." He was convicted of a murder he did not commit, so during the penalty faze of his trial he did everything he could to get the death penalty. His logic, if he was wrongly convicted to life in prison, nobody would give a s**t and he would rot in jail forever. If he was wrongly sentenced to death, some liberal lawyer would take up his case and exonerate him. The amazing thing is the plan worked. He convinced the jury to fry him and he found a liberal lawyer to overturn his conviction.
I was please that he did not get the death peanalty primarily because he so obviously WANTED to get the death penalty. The man wanted to die, and I'm glad he was not given his wish.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/1 2/0215234/
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/1 1/1718256/
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/ 29/2241247/
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/2 5/1838201/
and
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/2 2/0810225/
I remember a few years ago, this company licensed a Haiku to put in the email headers. If the Haiku was there, you were automatically white listed in various spam filters. If you used the Haiku without paying the licensed, you could be sued not for spam, but for copyright infringement. I wonder if they still exist. Anyway, small businesses were priced out of the system. If you weren't sending 1,000,000 emails a month, don't bother calling them because you can't afford it. It seemed like such a stupid way to do business in an internet age. I'd pay .05 to make sure an email made it to a client. Oh well.