Of course, I'm into the tech- technically, all you need is one of those cheap $50 recievers that gives you your current coordinates, speed and direction. But that's doing it the hard way.
For some of us, it's the fun way, the more adventurous way. Go find that path. While you're looking around, you might learn a lot more about the place you're in, whether it be a park, a shopping center parking lot, etc.
Personally, I think it's fun, except when I see a lot of people walking noisily to a location, with a handheld GPS out in the open, etc. The idea is to be circumspect and enjoy the environment or the weird urban places you visit, not how quickly you can cross a cache off your list as a hit. And when you're obvious about it, people who aren't geocachers might go looking for the cache and destroy it or walk off with it. It happens a lot.
Not true. I guess it makes for a more dramatic story if they leave out the facts. Simple fact is, if the money had not been diverted, the money would of been spent on a project which would still not have been completed and the city would have still be lost. But, telling half truths on the news makes for a much better story. I heard this from an Army Corps of Engineers representative on the news this morning. According to him, even if they had started the project in 2002, the project probably would not have been completed until at least 2008. This is 2005, last I checked, which means the project probably wouldn't of started until about a year ago, which means we would of flushed that money with the rest of the city.
Funding had been cut since 2000. Guess it's all a matter of whose spin you want to believe.
Bush said he thought nobody thought the levees would fail...
While the file format itself may be a standard wrapper, there's many codecs out there that are obsolete and that only ever had proprietary drivers written for early MS Windows versions, for example.
If you pay someone to house-sit, and he or she discovers literal skeletons in your closet, do the police have to get a search warrant if the sitter invites them in? It's the same thing, here. The repairperson is acting as your agent.
Actually, I don't know, maybe they do have to get a warrant, so an alternate argument is that the repairperson, at least when the computer is at his or her place of business, has the right to alert the police to investigate something suspicious on his or her property. If you leave the country in a hurry and ask someone to store your belongings for you, and he or she drops a box while trying to put it in the attic and sneezes from all the white powder coming out when the box tears, he or she certainly has a right to call the cops and have them investigate if it's drugs or anthrax or just plain foot powder. So a repairperson should be able to call the cops and say "I was fixing this box this customer left, and ohmigod, disgusting, come over here, k?"
Should repairpeople go snooping? No. Neither should your house-sitter. But that's a separate discussion.
and for hours, only the international edition of CNN carried it on the front page. The US edition didn't. Actually, BBC wasn't much better, with just a small link on the side at the top of its news page.
I'm not really surprised, just sad. Celebrities hold more interest in the US than most other news stories, and forget international news, unless it involves (some of the many) ongoing wars.
How do I set up my file handlers to deal with this sneakernet thing?
Let them dress casually, to begin with. As a bonus, when they wear sneakers, they'll be able to run more quickly between tape drives, and mark the floors less. Higher throughput and less maintainance.
Are you really suggesting that censoring a website, massive fines, and jail time is appropriate for what you described as 'abusing the honor system' by getting some free boxes from FedEx ?
Did I say that? No. I don't think you read the first part of my comment?
Are you also suggesting that FedEx will have to end it's shipping materials program in the havoc that was unleashed by this site ?
Not just this site, no. Please read my comment again and try to understand that I am talking about the mentality that people have to abuse the trust the shipping companies have had.
Or is this a case of trying to justify the FedEx position to look 'fair and balanced' (strike that, 'fair and balanced' is copywrited and Slashdot will have to be sued off the internet now to protect Fox News!)
I'm sorry you feel it necessary to attack me personally. I'm hardly astroturfing here; I don't own stock in any of these companies, nor do I work for them.
FedEx is in the wrong for misusing a piece of legislation that was ill-conceibed to begin with. But the website owner is in the wrong for abusing the resources of that company.
Companies don't make these materials available with the intent of subsidizing the commons; there's an expectation, an honor system if you will, that you'll ask for materials you'll legitimately use with their service. When people abuse the honor system sufficiently, (this is sometimes called stealing) companies will have to lock down or remove easy access entirely. Imagine in the future, wanting to send something through a shipper, and being asked to pack it in the the shipper's office, because they don't let empty boxes out of the office due to abuse. Or perhaps they will require a deposit on the boxes. You can tell they're already close to this point, because they've already got tracking via account of boxes they send "serious" customers. Either eventuality stifles legitimate business, and it's the freeloaders' fault.
They end up looking for genetic factors leading to unconcealed recklessness. See, there are plenty of reckless drivers who conceal their behavior. They will become a higher percentage of the surviving driving population, so will be less easy to predict than those who are obviously reckless.
This ends up rewarding sneakiness, which means the criminals that remain will be much harder to catch.
Come on, Gateway, almost 1 in 4 desktops with repairs or serious problems? Compaq/HP, IBM and eMachines with around 1 in 5? The numbers don't look any better on the laptop side, once you factor in that a broken laptop generally has fewer parts a user can easily replace than a desktop.
If I ever needed ammo to prove that building it yourself is better whenever possible, this is it. Although I'd like to see motherboard failure rates, also, and not just reported by the manufacturer, because hardly anyone really returns them after the store refund period passes.
One can hardly take seriously staff of a company that thinks a reality tv show is going to give them "America's Next Top Fashion Designer."
Maybe it will, actually, because that's more about marketing than ability these days, probably. But they need to learn that style doesn't trump substance in the back office, at least.
Especially in light of newer and still somewhat inexpensive technologies such as color laser ($400) and Dye Sublimation ($250).
Because most people end up getting the inkjet that's on sale for $50 or $100, or even "free" with their new computer package. $250 vs. "free" up front is a big deal, even if, over the lifetime of the printer, inkjet turns out to be fairly costly and not as good quality.
If I ever have pictures I want to print out and keep for a long time, guess what? I'll take a data DVD over to Kinko's or similar and let them waste their supplies tweaking for free before I pay for the good copy. Sure, the per unit price is a lot more expensive to me, but I'm not buying many units. If I get that good, I'll buy a good printer.
I think "homosexual" covers both. It's male homosexuals who took the term "gay" and made it theirs, and "lesbians" use a different word possibly because the roots of their empowerment are different. Wikipedia seems to indicate the term has been in use with its modern meaning for decades, so it was hardly "suddenly."
I said it was basically only something absolute completists would want, as it was a compilation of remixes with no new material, and anyone wanting to enjoy IS's work who's new to it should definitely buy other specific titles that Amazon carried, instead. They rejected the review saying I was being unfair to the artist. I appealed. Was ignored. I think that was the last time I tried to do a review.
I see reviews there all the time that talk about products in glowing terms, by people who are listed as top 1000 reviewers, and after they parrot ad copy they say things like "I would get this, but I already have this" or "I can't wait until this comes out so I can try it." That's far beyond simply stacking reviews, and I have to wonder what compensation the reviewers get for doing that. I do hear of the top reviewers getting free stuff sometimes...
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Because they'll see this story plastered here and at his JE and realize it's a troll -- if they can't figure it out just by reading it.
Some of the "virtual cache" places in urban areas are cool.
For some of us, it's the fun way, the more adventurous way. Go find that path. While you're looking around, you might learn a lot more about the place you're in, whether it be a park, a shopping center parking lot, etc.
Nifty little FAQ right here.
Personally, I think it's fun, except when I see a lot of people walking noisily to a location, with a handheld GPS out in the open, etc. The idea is to be circumspect and enjoy the environment or the weird urban places you visit, not how quickly you can cross a cache off your list as a hit. And when you're obvious about it, people who aren't geocachers might go looking for the cache and destroy it or walk off with it. It happens a lot.
Funding had been cut since 2000. Guess it's all a matter of whose spin you want to believe.
Bush said he thought nobody thought the levees would fail...
While the file format itself may be a standard wrapper, there's many codecs out there that are obsolete and that only ever had proprietary drivers written for early MS Windows versions, for example.
After having to create torn-apart bodies of women and children and sounds of others dying?
An awful lot of people in the previous ./ coverage had problems with this.
If you pay someone to house-sit, and he or she discovers literal skeletons in your closet, do the police have to get a search warrant if the sitter invites them in? It's the same thing, here. The repairperson is acting as your agent.
Actually, I don't know, maybe they do have to get a warrant, so an alternate argument is that the repairperson, at least when the computer is at his or her place of business, has the right to alert the police to investigate something suspicious on his or her property. If you leave the country in a hurry and ask someone to store your belongings for you, and he or she drops a box while trying to put it in the attic and sneezes from all the white powder coming out when the box tears, he or she certainly has a right to call the cops and have them investigate if it's drugs or anthrax or just plain foot powder. So a repairperson should be able to call the cops and say "I was fixing this box this customer left, and ohmigod, disgusting, come over here, k?"
Should repairpeople go snooping? No. Neither should your house-sitter. But that's a separate discussion.
If you can't list reasons for yourself, having us come up with them for you is indicative that it's not such a hot idea.
So start by explaining what you want out of this, why you think GPL will be good for what you are doing.
and for hours, only the international edition of CNN carried it on the front page. The US edition didn't. Actually, BBC wasn't much better, with just a small link on the side at the top of its news page.
I'm not really surprised, just sad. Celebrities hold more interest in the US than most other news stories, and forget international news, unless it involves (some of the many) ongoing wars.
It's a simple question, I know, but if the exercise program isn't doing it, what else makes the bone mass come back?
Let them dress casually, to begin with.
As a bonus, when they wear sneakers, they'll be able to run more quickly between tape drives, and mark the floors less. Higher throughput and less maintainance.
Did I say that? No. I don't think you read the first part of my comment?
Not just this site, no. Please read my comment again and try to understand that I am talking about the mentality that people have to abuse the trust the shipping companies have had.
I'm sorry you feel it necessary to attack me personally. I'm hardly astroturfing here; I don't own stock in any of these companies, nor do I work for them.
FedEx is in the wrong for misusing a piece of legislation that was ill-conceibed to begin with. But the website owner is in the wrong for abusing the resources of that company.
Companies don't make these materials available with the intent of subsidizing the commons; there's an expectation, an honor system if you will, that you'll ask for materials you'll legitimately use with their service. When people abuse the honor system sufficiently, (this is sometimes called stealing) companies will have to lock down or remove easy access entirely. Imagine in the future, wanting to send something through a shipper, and being asked to pack it in the the shipper's office, because they don't let empty boxes out of the office due to abuse. Or perhaps they will require a deposit on the boxes. You can tell they're already close to this point, because they've already got tracking via account of boxes they send "serious" customers. Either eventuality stifles legitimate business, and it's the freeloaders' fault.
They end up looking for genetic factors leading to unconcealed recklessness. See, there are plenty of reckless drivers who conceal their behavior. They will become a higher percentage of the surviving driving population, so will be less easy to predict than those who are obviously reckless.
This ends up rewarding sneakiness, which means the criminals that remain will be much harder to catch.
Come on, Gateway, almost 1 in 4 desktops with repairs or serious problems? Compaq/HP, IBM and eMachines with around 1 in 5? The numbers don't look any better on the laptop side, once you factor in that a broken laptop generally has fewer parts a user can easily replace than a desktop.
If I ever needed ammo to prove that building it yourself is better whenever possible, this is it. Although I'd like to see motherboard failure rates, also, and not just reported by the manufacturer, because hardly anyone really returns them after the store refund period passes.
A bunch of developers caught sick with Mono, and everything got set back a few months, at least.
Go on, ask them who they've been kissing up to, so to speak...
One can hardly take seriously staff of a company that thinks a reality tv show is going to give them "America's Next Top Fashion Designer."
Maybe it will, actually, because that's more about marketing than ability these days, probably. But they need to learn that style doesn't trump substance in the back office, at least.
Because most people end up getting the inkjet that's on sale for $50 or $100, or even "free" with their new computer package. $250 vs. "free" up front is a big deal, even if, over the lifetime of the printer, inkjet turns out to be fairly costly and not as good quality.
If I ever have pictures I want to print out and keep for a long time, guess what? I'll take a data DVD over to Kinko's or similar and let them waste their supplies tweaking for free before I pay for the good copy. Sure, the per unit price is a lot more expensive to me, but I'm not buying many units. If I get that good, I'll buy a good printer.
I think "homosexual" covers both. It's male homosexuals who took the term "gay" and made it theirs, and "lesbians" use a different word possibly because the roots of their empowerment are different. Wikipedia seems to indicate the term has been in use with its modern meaning for decades, so it was hardly "suddenly."
Maybe they could start by hiring back the many competent translators they used to have but dumped because they were gay or lesbian?
Naaaah, that'll never happen.
"Darn, he's talking to TOR."
Speaking of which, I wonder how this affects TOR, Freenet, all those other mystical/mythical networks.
If you use open source router software, and tunnel or SSL or SSH to everything, this should not be a problem.
The question is, why aren't people assuming that plaintext is a bad thing already?
I said it was basically only something absolute completists would want, as it was a compilation of remixes with no new material, and anyone wanting to enjoy IS's work who's new to it should definitely buy other specific titles that Amazon carried, instead. They rejected the review saying I was being unfair to the artist. I appealed. Was ignored. I think that was the last time I tried to do a review.
I see reviews there all the time that talk about products in glowing terms, by people who are listed as top 1000 reviewers, and after they parrot ad copy they say things like "I would get this, but I already have this" or "I can't wait until this comes out so I can try it." That's far beyond simply stacking reviews, and I have to wonder what compensation the reviewers get for doing that. I do hear of the top reviewers getting free stuff sometimes...