This is why I ALWAYS use one time credit card numbers for all transactions (online, and many times even when I call in something). A lot of credit card companies offer this service for free. Mine does (MBNA - just recently merged with BankofAmerica). When I want to buy something, I log into my account, click on "ShopSafe" set the number of months the number should be valid (i leave it at 2) and the limit, normally i put 5 bucks over what the cost should be. It then gives you a credit card number that is tied to the first merchant that uses it. Once the merchant tries to use it, no one else can... and it can never be used for more than the limit you set.
One might think that there would be complications with refunds, but they handle it all perfectly behind the scenes. I have received refunds for numbers that have expired.
Seriously, if you're not using this service you are a fool.
Distrowatch does this... shows the popularity of different distros. It sometimes influences me to try knew distros that manage to make it to the top of the list even if I have never heard of them.
What I do is boil a large container (I normally make 2-3 these days, to keep some at home) of tea and you can bring it to work. I normally use the normal lipton packets, about 6 of them for half a gallon or so, and maybe like 10 of them for a gallon or a gallon and a half. The key thing is that you boil the water and then let it cool down a little before you add the tea bags. This way the tea will not be bitter, if you add it when its still hot, it will come out bitter. This has let me stop drinking soda almost all the time, and the best part is people from work love it too. Some of the other programmers will drink my tea and then decide to make their own. They normally will end up making and bringing in something different and it's a lot of fun and you get to try new things. Other than that, drinking ice water is great for those late nights as well.
One you make this decision you can't turn back. The second that you allow proprietary drivers to be used by linux you will see a sharp decrease in the number of opensource drivers being worked on/used. When you have a working solution, you will not have the same desire/need for an opensource version. Yeah, of course we all know the argument, we love open source... and if you have a working windows, then why have an opensource OS. It is different though. Most people think that everyone that uses linux is a huge fan of opensource. A lot of them are, but sadly a large amount of the userbase loves it for other reasons including that it is free and just seems to work better. I hope I am wrong with this, and that the hardcore users who are coming out with the drivers anyways will continue their work, but I feel like it is just something that must be thought about a lot before taking this leap. Otherwise I feel like many would say "we don't have an opensource driver for this thing A so let's just temporarily use this proprietary one" and then lessening the chance of the opensource one ever coming out cause you have a working solution which is fine for most people.
I mean, how is this any different than say all the resources on how to make bombs on the internet (oh no, I just got my traffic flagged since I think it passes through AT&T networks). Anyways, just because the info on how to make weapons is online does not directly lead to people using that info for bad things. The people who truly want to do bad things will get their info from elsewhere. This is just a bad marketing attempt to screw people out of freedom of information/speech.
One of the key steps that a patent attorney partakes in is what is called Due Diligence.
From wiki:
Due diligence (also known as due care) is the effort made by an ordinarily prudent or reasonable party to avoid harm to another party or himself. Failure to make this effort is considered negligence. Quite often a contract will specify that a party is required to provide due diligence.
Due Diligence in the patent world means doing checks for prior art.
Man, I hope your company isn't paying hosting by bandwidth... or your bosses might be a little upset about how you just slashdotted your own page. I guess that's the price of "Free" advertising on slashdot.
This reminded me of work going at at UMD (University of Maryland, College Park). I know it's not quite the same thing, but I feel as though this is a good place to mention it and the slashdot community would appreciate this software. FindBugs is a very cool tool for finding bugs in java code. And no, I am not affiliated with this project, I just saw a talk on it a couple months ago.
One-Man IT dept and still have time for slashdot? Now that would be the first thing I would fix.
But in all seriousness, you need to say (like the other posts have mentioned) what you are trying to manage. This is way too open ended of a question. I wish the editors would pick up on these rediculously open ended questions and ask the submitter to provide more details before posting.
I just checked it out really quickly and noticed some serious flaws. They're such basic things that it is a little distburning.
1. They do not show you the link under each results, they only show you the domain. So in the quick search that I did I ended up with a ton of results at the same domain, but can't tell which one is which.
2. I figure ok, I'll just mouse over the link to see where it goes to... NOPE, does not work.
3. It's definitely missing a lot of links. In searching for something that I am familiar with the results, namely my own name in quotes, I get 28 results from Accoona, as compared to 137 from google (all valid).
and these are just the things I noticed in the first 10 seconds.
Craigslist has been charging for some things, specifically full time job postings in certain areas, for the past couple of years. I think it is a good thing to keep down the number of spam messages that are being posted in certain sections (Specifically jobs and real estate).
You really can't expect a decent answer to your question without presenting the needs of the company better. Is this company's website just an information website about the company, or do they actually provide some sort of web-based business? And if the latter is the case, is it something that mobile users would even be interested in? These are the kinds of things you have to decide, not just if websites for mobile devices are good in general. (This is slashdot, so of course you'll get the hypothetical/philophical answers to this general debate - but it doesn't seem to be what you want).
Dupe Quote - Ripoff of Del.icio.us Purchase Story
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On Yahoo!'s Acquisitions
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Todays article: "The Guardian has quite an insightful article about recent Yahoo acquisitions Delicious and Flickr. They quote Joshua Schachter, Delicious' creator: 'We're excited to be working with the Yahoo search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. We're also excited to be joining our fraternal twin, Flickr!' And why Yahoo's interest? The article opines: 'It takes a lot of the hard work out of searching the web. The very clever thing about social software is that it puts the burden on to the user, not the provider.'"
Dec. 9th: "The developers at del.icio.us have announced that they were purchased by Yahoo!. From the post: 'We're proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we'll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. We're excited to be working with the Yahoo! Search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. (We're also excited to be joining our fraternal twin Flickr!)'" For background on this purchase, carre4 writes "Stuart Maxwell, Jeff Barr, and Yahoo! team's Jeremy Zawodny recently did an interview explaining What's so cool about del.icio.us, in which Jeremy gave a non-committal answer about Yahoo acquiring del.ico.us"
use strict and Data::Dumper!
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Pro Perl Debugging
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· Score: 4, Insightful
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
# Two things that make debugging perl easy:
#
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
The first one will solve most peoples perl problems, and the second one is helpfull sometimes when dealing with complex datastructures.
"Distributed hash tables (DHTs) are a class of decentralized distributed systems that partition ownership of a set of keys among participating nodes, and can efficiently route messages to the unique owner of any given key. Each node is analogous to a bucket in a hash table. DHTs are typically designed to scale to large numbers of nodes and to handle continual node arrivals and failures. This infrastructure can be used to build more complex services, such as distributed file systems, peer-to-peer file sharing systems, cooperative web caching, multicast, anycast, and domain name services."
They mention an RFID kit from PhidgetsUSA in their list which look kind of cool (and they are definitely pretty cheap), but they only have the ability to be read like 1-4 inches away. Does anyone know good suppliers of RFIDs (readers & chips) that work in larger distances. I would love to make a tracking kit for objects around the home, i.e. keys and such, but this would require much longer distances to be any use. I have looked around some, but can't find any good ones, it seems you have to be in the business of ordering tons of RFIDs if you want to buy anything decent. And of course there's the FCC license thing, but this is slashdot... so let's not worry about that for now. Any insight would be appreciated.
They are claiming the VoIP companies aren't paying to use their pipes, but isn't it the case, like any other internet traffic, we are paying for those pipes. Our ISP is paying for them if we aren't using them directly. It is just another service that we, the users, can use our internet for, and they shouldn't expect to be getting money on both ends.
You know this thing only runs on the batteries for around 9-10 minutes right? The battery support is really only there as a sort of UPS system, it was not designed to be run as a portable independent unit with no power source for any long period of time.
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Mind sharing some more details, specifically what IP cameras you're using (or have tried) and your thoughts on how they work? Thanks!
But there's the catch...
:-)
You are not under US jurisdiction while in cuba
Not when this is what you have listed under Careers:
NTH Tier Solutions Careers
Please be patient while we build
Yeah... that should work :-)
This is why I ALWAYS use one time credit card numbers for all transactions (online, and many times even when I call in something). A lot of credit card companies offer this service for free. Mine does (MBNA - just recently merged with BankofAmerica). When I want to buy something, I log into my account, click on "ShopSafe" set the number of months the number should be valid (i leave it at 2) and the limit, normally i put 5 bucks over what the cost should be. It then gives you a credit card number that is tied to the first merchant that uses it. Once the merchant tries to use it, no one else can... and it can never be used for more than the limit you set.
One might think that there would be complications with refunds, but they handle it all perfectly behind the scenes. I have received refunds for numbers that have expired.
Seriously, if you're not using this service you are a fool.
Distrowatch does this... shows the popularity of different distros. It sometimes influences me to try knew distros that manage to make it to the top of the list even if I have never heard of them.
What I do is boil a large container (I normally make 2-3 these days, to keep some at home) of tea and you can bring it to work. I normally use the normal lipton packets, about 6 of them for half a gallon or so, and maybe like 10 of them for a gallon or a gallon and a half. The key thing is that you boil the water and then let it cool down a little before you add the tea bags. This way the tea will not be bitter, if you add it when its still hot, it will come out bitter. This has let me stop drinking soda almost all the time, and the best part is people from work love it too. Some of the other programmers will drink my tea and then decide to make their own. They normally will end up making and bringing in something different and it's a lot of fun and you get to try new things. Other than that, drinking ice water is great for those late nights as well.
One you make this decision you can't turn back. The second that you allow proprietary drivers to be used by linux you will see a sharp decrease in the number of opensource drivers being worked on/used. When you have a working solution, you will not have the same desire/need for an opensource version. Yeah, of course we all know the argument, we love open source... and if you have a working windows, then why have an opensource OS. It is different though. Most people think that everyone that uses linux is a huge fan of opensource. A lot of them are, but sadly a large amount of the userbase loves it for other reasons including that it is free and just seems to work better. I hope I am wrong with this, and that the hardcore users who are coming out with the drivers anyways will continue their work, but I feel like it is just something that must be thought about a lot before taking this leap. Otherwise I feel like many would say "we don't have an opensource driver for this thing A so let's just temporarily use this proprietary one" and then lessening the chance of the opensource one ever coming out cause you have a working solution which is fine for most people.
I love my replayTV, not only does it have the commercial skip but when paired with DVarchive it is just amazing. For those that don't know, DVarchive is software that allows your computer to act like a replaytv on the network, allowing you to download shows from your replaytv to your computer as well as stream them from your computer to your replay, and best of all... it's so easy your parents can use it!
I mean, how is this any different than say all the resources on how to make bombs on the internet (oh no, I just got my traffic flagged since I think it passes through AT&T networks). Anyways, just because the info on how to make weapons is online does not directly lead to people using that info for bad things. The people who truly want to do bad things will get their info from elsewhere. This is just a bad marketing attempt to screw people out of freedom of information/speech.
One of the key steps that a patent attorney partakes in is what is called Due Diligence.
From wiki: Due diligence (also known as due care) is the effort made by an ordinarily prudent or reasonable party to avoid harm to another party or himself. Failure to make this effort is considered negligence. Quite often a contract will specify that a party is required to provide due diligence.
Due Diligence in the patent world means doing checks for prior art.
http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/04/04/169215.shtml?t id=2&tid=18&tid=3
Man, I hope your company isn't paying hosting by bandwidth... or your bosses might be a little upset about how you just slashdotted your own page. I guess that's the price of "Free" advertising on slashdot.
http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
But in all seriousness, you need to say (like the other posts have mentioned) what you are trying to manage. This is way too open ended of a question. I wish the editors would pick up on these rediculously open ended questions and ask the submitter to provide more details before posting.
1. They do not show you the link under each results, they only show you the domain. So in the quick search that I did I ended up with a ton of results at the same domain, but can't tell which one is which.
2. I figure ok, I'll just mouse over the link to see where it goes to... NOPE, does not work.
3. It's definitely missing a lot of links. In searching for something that I am familiar with the results, namely my own name in quotes, I get 28 results from Accoona, as compared to 137 from google (all valid).
and these are just the things I noticed in the first 10 seconds.
Definition of inflammable:
1. Easily ignited and capable of burning rapidly; flammable.
2. Quickly or easily aroused to strong emotion; excitable.
Definition of flammable:
1. Easily ignited and capable of burning rapidly; inflammable.
Craigslist has been charging for some things, specifically full time job postings in certain areas, for the past couple of years. I think it is a good thing to keep down the number of spam messages that are being posted in certain sections (Specifically jobs and real estate).
You really can't expect a decent answer to your question without presenting the needs of the company better. Is this company's website just an information website about the company, or do they actually provide some sort of web-based business? And if the latter is the case, is it something that mobile users would even be interested in? These are the kinds of things you have to decide, not just if websites for mobile devices are good in general. (This is slashdot, so of course you'll get the hypothetical/philophical answers to this general debate - but it doesn't seem to be what you want).
Dec. 9th: "The developers at del.icio.us have announced that they were purchased by Yahoo!. From the post: 'We're proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we'll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. We're excited to be working with the Yahoo! Search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. (We're also excited to be joining our fraternal twin Flickr!)'" For background on this purchase, carre4 writes "Stuart Maxwell, Jeff Barr, and Yahoo! team's Jeremy Zawodny recently did an interview explaining What's so cool about del.icio.us, in which Jeremy gave a non-committal answer about Yahoo acquiring del.ico.us"
#! /usr/local/bin/perl
#
# Two things that make debugging perl easy:
#
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
The first one will solve most peoples perl problems, and the second one is helpfull sometimes when dealing with complex datastructures.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_tabl e for more
"Distributed hash tables (DHTs) are a class of decentralized distributed systems that partition ownership of a set of keys among participating nodes, and can efficiently route messages to the unique owner of any given key. Each node is analogous to a bucket in a hash table. DHTs are typically designed to scale to large numbers of nodes and to handle continual node arrivals and failures. This infrastructure can be used to build more complex services, such as distributed file systems, peer-to-peer file sharing systems, cooperative web caching, multicast, anycast, and domain name services."
They mention an RFID kit from PhidgetsUSA in their list which look kind of cool (and they are definitely pretty cheap), but they only have the ability to be read like 1-4 inches away. Does anyone know good suppliers of RFIDs (readers & chips) that work in larger distances. I would love to make a tracking kit for objects around the home, i.e. keys and such, but this would require much longer distances to be any use. I have looked around some, but can't find any good ones, it seems you have to be in the business of ordering tons of RFIDs if you want to buy anything decent. And of course there's the FCC license thing, but this is slashdot... so let's not worry about that for now. Any insight would be appreciated.
They are claiming the VoIP companies aren't paying to use their pipes, but isn't it the case, like any other internet traffic, we are paying for those pipes. Our ISP is paying for them if we aren't using them directly. It is just another service that we, the users, can use our internet for, and they shouldn't expect to be getting money on both ends.
You know this thing only runs on the batteries for around 9-10 minutes right? The battery support is really only there as a sort of UPS system, it was not designed to be run as a portable independent unit with no power source for any long period of time.