Well it doesn't worry me personally, but it would if I assumed my goal to be to attain an indifference in the sexes (also refered to as equallity which I believe doesn't have the right implication).
The thing that proponents of such a view have trouble with is exactly your view that there is a genetic factor that dictates our behavior which is fully linked to our sex. I don't beleive that there has yet been any scientific basis for such a claim, mostly due to a lack of control.
I won't deny that there are years of evolution involved, millions even, but I think that the specific evolution that determines our social roles isn't genetic, but rather social evolution. I could go so far as to say that a basis for our early societies (pre settlements) would have been inherited from our primate ancestors.
The only problem is that arguments to the contrary of indifference between sexes seem to support a setup where ones sex is the largest determinant of ones social role. Is there really a genetic basis for such a state, or are we largely blowing the genetics out of proportion? (but thankfully not as much as when it was assumed that being white meant you were a freeman and being black meant that you'd have a natural tendancy to becoming a slave/commodity).
Most of my female friends when faced with a choice between high pay and long hours versus reasonable pay and reasonable hours make a life
choice decision towards a reasonable job (40-45 hours/week).
Most of my male friends faced with the same options look at the higher pay and jump on it.
The thing to keep in mind when people point out gender disparity is not that it is the disparity itself which is wrong; i.e. women don't just get paid less (although they often do), but also largly choose to be paid less for other reasons; but that it is the disparity which is a symptom of what is wrong.
If the claim is that men and women should in all respects be treated equally, something which may or may not be a realistic goal, then there should not only be no disparity in pay, but also no disparity in the choices made by 50% of the population. It is equally worrying to consider that women have been socially conditioned to think of the quality of their and their (possible) family's life as opposed to the level of pay that they get [which undoubtably also affects quality of life], as it is to consider that men are conditioned to neglect anything and everything in return for greater pay.
-Daniel
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for personal use I dont think I would ever want one my Palm V is enough
My point though is that for all intents and purposes a palm is a wearable. Its normally on your clothing (a pocket), and it has the minor point of having to be swiveled away from its resting place to be viewed and interacted with. "wearables" may not be cool, but mp3 players and palms are; I think the line is terribly fine. Certainly you'll never run windows or a full desktop linux on a cool wearable, so people should stop trying to sell that kind of wearable.
Also, when I said I wasn't sold, I meant that by telling me that wearables are usfull for military personnel and mechanical engineers isn't going to, as the article's images implied, convince a car mechanic or a librarian, or check out clerk that these things will work for them (although I'm sure there's some way they could work). So if they're attempting to market beyond their niche to the next one (as it seems they are in a forward looking way), they should look at other portable, personal, electronic devices have been successfull, and what they've offered that could be improved on by using some of the design criterion of wearable computing.
-Daniel
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I'm all for getting rid of the qwerty keyboard. That should be considered for desktop computers as well. I mean I realize it's not easy for people, but if we let this kind of thinking persist well just keep on hurting our fingers and wrists.
now about job site wearables... I'm not sold. I don't think this is the niche that wearables are really looking for, I think they're looking for the walkman niche where everyone's got to have their mp3s their notes and their email ready to go at a moments' notice. But I think a palm device is sufficently wearable with perhaps the addition of a nifty screen.
Actually; I think they didn't really/want/ any of it other than the name and the market niche.
They may be left with a box, but I suppose that the obvious choice for sun, regardless of os, but specifically because of their choice of solaris, will be making future Cobalts with Sparcs.
Partially I think sun also bought cobalt because the asthetics fit with theirs, as the product's intent and niche fits with what they could do. You see, sun likes purplely blue colors. They have machines that are built to look nice; on some sun boards the sun made chips have a translucent purple plastic encasing around them. In their MA engineering place (bedford?) they have a few walls that are made of purple material in a huge sine-wave (making the hallway narower and wider at times) with halogen spot lighting on surfaces.
Now, cobalt's not purple, but its close, and maybe sun folks want to spruce up the spectrum a little. Which reminds me, why, once apple finally released macs in the colors of its logo, did the spectrum colored apple logo fade away?
I'm saying everyone should open all borders. If you've ever tried to cross one of the enforced ones (and there are plenty of those, some within countries, like around military bases) you'd know that it feels pretty weird to suddenly be told that, hey, you don't get to see any of our land, walk on it, live on it or do anything else concerning it; and then when you realize that they're talking about something the size of say england or germany or even canada or brazil, thats pretty absurdly largly limiting. I'm saying the idea of land as property in and of itself is a violation of the rights people/should/ have.
Now maybe that's because even though I'm a citizen of several places, I'd rather be a citizen of none or all.
we have stark realities to deal with
Which I believe have been created through the concept of land ownership (in large part).
what is to prevent invasion and everyone's equal rights to defend their homeland from invasion.
What's an invasion? If its having a bunch of people show up one day, and mill about a bit, and act pretty decent, then you have no right to defend yourself from this, nor to prevent it. If it's people who ring your door bell to kick you in the head and take your stuff, then go ahead defend yourself, but you're not defending from invasion, you're defending from a violation against yourself. While you're at it though, try and remeber that while the person may be chinese or whatever, he's not representative of every person you'd classify as chinese.
A non-citizen's
freedom of movement must never supercede a citizen's right to defend their self-government.
Besides, if anyone is serious about becoming a US citizen, they can immigrate legally and become naturalized, just like I did.
The only problems with this, is that there's really no difference between a citizen and a non-citizen, don't let anyone fool you. Sure thinking as a citizen, and being nationalistic has lead people to put bombs in other countries and be generally nasty to some people they don't even know, but perhaps by realizing that there's no difference, such types of hatred could be worked against. Now if by circumstance of birth I'm not a citizen of X why should that change how I'm treated? Certainly one can naturalize, but its not as easy for some. Think of it this way: you're born in india, you live in say france for a bit, and you're a citizen of some EU country. Now you want to spend a few years in the US, and citizenship is open to all; great! but you'll have to drop your other citizenships and never again be quite welcome in France or India unless you're on a limited vacation, and switching takes a number of months to years depending. [not all of us are sought after theoretical physicists welcome in any country].
Finally, I'm glad you didn't argue about taxes, but I thought I'd point it out for others: regardless of citizenship, people living in the US for a certain amount of time in the year are taxable on their income worldwide by the IRS. But if you're a US citizen even if you don't live in the US, then you're still taxable worldwide, and I find that last bit a mite strange.
Beware of Speakeasy. Their contracts are very dirty and the speed was nothing to write home about (350 kbps on a 608 connection).
There are already two responses refuting this as an isolated incident involving not checking your mail. They've been moded to 0.
I just/need/ to say that by far, speakeasy has been the best provider of service I've ever dealt with, except maybe my electric company, they're nice people too.
However, with verizon offering a competing DSL service, and being in a possition to install a new line or hook up your existing on (they tend towards the former here in MA), the service we get from them is lacking. They actually delayed for about 2 months, and then phoned us to offer DSL service from them, promissing that installation would be prompt.
I can't speak specifically about the feasability of Open Source Books. But I can say that Contrary to what I've read so far, reference material can excellently exist in an electronic format. The reasons stem from the hyper-linking and searching cababilities with which a reader can be empowered. This is good for all kinds of research, although I use it most for refering to APIs. How many people like to print/all/ their man pages?
Now; as merriam-webster collegiate dictionary defines politics, the feature may be right; The vying for leadership possitions in the government may end. But as I feel politics should be defined (a never ending discourse on agreements in day to day affairs), then that will never end.
Now what should end is the enforcements of borders. There's nothing more hypocritical to an ideoligy of freedom and equal rights for all humans than a border with INS officials starting with the assumption of "What right do you have to be here?"
That unfortunately would leave a load of stuff to MS. Like all the code they had worked on, the releases, all the in development stuff like oni and halo, the artwork and the music. Don't forget the agreements about not competeing with the company after leaving it for x months/years.
Realistically, this would never work for any of bungie's stuff; it may work wonderfully for the people, if they take a year long vacation or something first.
This is one of those things Bungie should have expected. When their FAQ says that they were bought by MS as a model of what a game company and its cuture should be and not as something to be tampered with and assimillated, I wasn't about ready to believe it. I hope for them they have something like that in writing from MS so that they can operate their severs any way they see fit.
Unfortunately in the future I predict that enough people interested in gaming and MS will apply at and transfer into Bungie, such that the pressure from within the organization of Bungie itself will force a large degree of MS conformity.
-Daniel
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True; sort of. They got it from digital who designed it. I mean is Tru64[Digital Unix] compaq's? No. Its not changed enough to be anything but Digital's Unix. The SA110 and SA1100 arn't changed one bit (other than the logo printed on them)... But Intel does/promise/ to make a new line. And there's this support chip they're promoting.
Used to be anyone could buy an SA direct from Digital in quanitities of 1 for $26 [At least that's what MadDog said when he spoke about how cool they were and Digital was still around]. That really promoted hobbyists to be interested in it; but now I can't seem to find a decent way to get one without buying 10,000 or a development kit (a couple hundred dollars). Damn Damn Damn.
Course if you have any suggestions for getting a couple chips to build something fun with, please do tell.
Looks like the HW is going to change a lot.
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Yes, I'd say that Sun has bought this for SW reasons. At Sun, engineering a HW solution without using a SPARC is frowned upon (of course), so the core of the design for the Cobalt line will have to change. Now that's too bad because MIPs chips are cheap and SPARCs arn't (no even that new one isn't so cheep.
UltraSPARC-IIe for low-end embedded applications. It has 256Kb on-die L2, and pretty much
the whole chipset on-die too and can use PC100 SDRAM, apparantly. The 400MHz part is $145 in volume and the 500MHz part is $225 in volume.
They're pretty power efficient too - 8W max for 400, 13W max for 500.
Now, I wouldn't claim that that's particularly power efficient. compare to:
A PowerPC (MPC750@400Mhz) MAX 5.8W
Digital's StrongArm (SA110@233) MAX 1W
[I couldn't find MIPS R4000 info]
Granted the Intel Chips use a lot of power, but I'm not sure the USparcIIe is actually applicable to something like a laptop.
-Daniel
I'm not American so I wouldn't care about creating a corporation in my state (although I do see how someone else might find it appealing). Besides which some states/cities require that you own/rent a commercial building (thats much more expensive than a plaque). And wouldn't you want to be an international corporation anyway? Oh and I've been told a virtual company name can be about as cheap as $20 which is what I was really suggesting anyway.
I await the day people recognize that the US city and county names are incredibly unoriginal; although I commend you on great state names... although Florida and Louisiana were not thought up by Americans (nor, would the locals claim, was Texas), but there are 50 of them and they're mostly unique. I mean how many Londons Bristols, Parises and other more minor Cities names does one country need? near 3 of each it seems. (notice how awkward pluralizing a city's name is). I wish there was a DB of city founding dates and name change dates so that we could quite clearly see who came first.
Sorry but that book falls into my very large category of books that are useless.
Absolutely; DHL is great, they could deliver to dubai in the UAE 10 years ago in a couple of days rather than the months it takes to normally get/send stuff.
So, I suggest going to town hall, and registering a virtual company (I believe that's what its called). Its basically a name that's like to your name; then you open a bank account to accept money in that name or pay in that name. The IRS will probably want to set it up with a unique tax ID, but then perhaps that's not necessary since a virtual company is not limited in anyway. (i.e. you are personally liable for the operations of that company, which is okay for a small thing).
Then go to DHL and get them to do it right with this company name.
Alternatively, The Island of Nassau in the Bahamas has this deal that you pay them money yearly to have a corporation, they officially give you an employee that does the local paperwork, and a plaque on the wall of a building (that looks like its made of plaques). But this is costly, and only really necessary if you need incorporation for yourself, which I don't really need... but I found its available so... I don't know how to contact them and set this sort of thing up though, sorry.
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a company that indexes data should never out-right remove data from its index unless its incorrect. I mean making that MD directory dissapear to create more hits for yahoo is counter the aims of the google engine [to get you information].
Now, maybe its financially sound for them to do it since yahoo gives them money, but its a bad trend to start since the more people who are willing to pay (and I bet there's a bunch) the less your going to be able to get from each them in the end (for example its hard to push advertising prices up unless its a special event or something). I think such a financial outlook is short termed and potentially dammaging to their reputation, which is a terribly important factor for sites like these.
With hotsync, your palm info goes into your computer. Now years ago, with the geoport on an apple mac, you could call it up and it could be an answering machine, or it could run voice activated scripts like all macs can now (albeit no one uses them cause they're annoying).
With that geoport/telephony feature you could get it to search through information (like your email's inbox) and read you text files. There was talk of a commercial program that pluged into the apple scripts to allow you to take dictation (i.e. reply to mail), but I never saw that. So there's nothing great about this.
But when eventually such voice tasks can be done in the palm (/maybe/ with a SA1100(strongArm) but they don't do FP), then that will be something good and new.
[operator]: he claims its a popular website for "geeks" pertaining particularly to linux then open source.
[busy manager]: okay; whats this about?
I mean realistically I don't think slashdot registers with most people, just those of us who seem to have forgotten how to browse the web for ourselves [damn you guys, now I can't go anywhere without it being a direct or mildly removed link from a slashdot story].
But yes, I agree, why couldn't we just ask a few quick direct questions:
- why is there no longer a mention of the press release about a legal DVD player for linux on your website?
- you seems to have delayed quite a few months, at least 2 most recently. Do you expect that there is any certainty that this product will become a reality?
[busy manager to operator]: slash -- dot ?
[operator]: he claims its a popular website for "geeks" pertaining particularly to linux then open source.
[busy manager]: okay; whats this about?
I mean realistically I don't think slashdot registers with most people, just those of us who seem to have forgotten how to browse the web for ourselves [damn you guys, now I can't go anywhere without it being a direct or mildly removed link from a slashdot story].
But yes, I agree, why couldn't we just ask a few quick direct questions:
- why is there no longer a mention of the press release about a legal DVD player for linux on your website?
- you seems to have delayed quite a few months, at least 2 most recently. Do you expect that there is any certainty that this product will become a reality?
um. This: http://acme.mega-vi sion.com/products/1shot/s3pro/technical.html isn't it. But its similar to what I had in mind. a pitty they don't supply the full size sample images like that other site I had in mind did; then you could compare the difference.
Notice how this camera has leasing options. "We can't reasonably expect you to pay $24,000 for part of a camera, but we'll let you use it for a while..."
I hope not. I was looking at a professional camera sold without a lens that had a fire wire interface and 25Mb per picture. The quality was wonderful. Jpeg's quality is not so wonderful.
[this was a one product web site with some nice examples and such; I havn't been able to find it again, sorry for the lacking link] The price was several thousand dollars (I think more than 10).
but I'd like to see what constitutes the scale. I think some examples of A B C D and F in organizations (possibly outside government if need be) would be helpful too.
At one unnamed agency, all 1,100 users had been granted access to sensitive
system directories and settings, the GAO found.
As far as this is concerned. I'd like to think that organizations can be secure enough in other ways to not have to have co-workers hiding information from co-workers that are possibly right next to them.
Slashdot Mirror
The thing that proponents of such a view have trouble with is exactly your view that there is a genetic factor that dictates our behavior which is fully linked to our sex. I don't beleive that there has yet been any scientific basis for such a claim, mostly due to a lack of control.
I won't deny that there are years of evolution involved, millions even, but I think that the specific evolution that determines our social roles isn't genetic, but rather social evolution. I could go so far as to say that a basis for our early societies (pre settlements) would have been inherited from our primate ancestors.
The only problem is that arguments to the contrary of indifference between sexes seem to support a setup where ones sex is the largest determinant of ones social role. Is there really a genetic basis for such a state, or are we largely blowing the genetics out of proportion? (but thankfully not as much as when it was assumed that being white meant you were a freeman and being black meant that you'd have a natural tendancy to becoming a slave/commodity).
Most of my male friends faced with the same options look at the higher pay and jump on it.
The thing to keep in mind when people point out gender disparity is not that it is the disparity itself which is wrong; i.e. women don't just get paid less (although they often do), but also largly choose to be paid less for other reasons; but that it is the disparity which is a symptom of what is wrong.
If the claim is that men and women should in all respects be treated equally, something which may or may not be a realistic goal, then there should not only be no disparity in pay, but also no disparity in the choices made by 50% of the population. It is equally worrying to consider that women have been socially conditioned to think of the quality of their and their (possible) family's life as opposed to the level of pay that they get [which undoubtably also affects quality of life], as it is to consider that men are conditioned to neglect anything and everything in return for greater pay.
-Daniel
As for personal use I dont think I would ever want one my Palm V is enough
My point though is that for all intents and purposes a palm is a wearable. Its normally on your clothing (a pocket), and it has the minor point of having to be swiveled away from its resting place to be viewed and interacted with. "wearables" may not be cool, but mp3 players and palms are; I think the line is terribly fine. Certainly you'll never run windows or a full desktop linux on a cool wearable, so people should stop trying to sell that kind of wearable.
Also, when I said I wasn't sold, I meant that by telling me that wearables are usfull for military personnel and mechanical engineers isn't going to, as the article's images implied, convince a car mechanic or a librarian, or check out clerk that these things will work for them (although I'm sure there's some way they could work). So if they're attempting to market beyond their niche to the next one (as it seems they are in a forward looking way), they should look at other portable, personal, electronic devices have been successfull, and what they've offered that could be improved on by using some of the design criterion of wearable computing.
-Daniel
now about job site wearables... I'm not sold. I don't think this is the niche that wearables are really looking for, I think they're looking for the walkman niche where everyone's got to have their mp3s their notes and their email ready to go at a moments' notice. But I think a palm device is sufficently wearable with perhaps the addition of a nifty screen.
-Daniel
[yup I didn't realize this thread was accepted]
um actually my card does have an SGI connector, but no monitor.
The card's been successfully flashed to work with my friend's windows machine, but he didn't get it working with NT, although 98 is fine.
wow I didn't realize this was accepted (thread);
hm.. I considered it before posting, but the rev IV was free the ProFormance was... costly.
Thanks for the info though.
-Daniel
They may be left with a box, but I suppose that the obvious choice for sun, regardless of os, but specifically because of their choice of solaris, will be making future Cobalts with Sparcs.
Partially I think sun also bought cobalt because the asthetics fit with theirs, as the product's intent and niche fits with what they could do. You see, sun likes purplely blue colors. They have machines that are built to look nice; on some sun boards the sun made chips have a translucent purple plastic encasing around them. In their MA engineering place (bedford?) they have a few walls that are made of purple material in a huge sine-wave (making the hallway narower and wider at times) with halogen spot lighting on surfaces.
Now, cobalt's not purple, but its close, and maybe sun folks want to spruce up the spectrum a little. Which reminds me, why, once apple finally released macs in the colors of its logo, did the spectrum colored apple logo fade away?
-Daniel
Now maybe that's because even though I'm a citizen of several places, I'd rather be a citizen of none or all.
we have stark realities to deal with
Which I believe have been created through the concept of land ownership (in large part).
what is to prevent invasion and everyone's equal rights to defend their homeland from invasion.
What's an invasion? If its having a bunch of people show up one day, and mill about a bit, and act pretty decent, then you have no right to defend yourself from this, nor to prevent it. If it's people who ring your door bell to kick you in the head and take your stuff, then go ahead defend yourself, but you're not defending from invasion, you're defending from a violation against yourself. While you're at it though, try and remeber that while the person may be chinese or whatever, he's not representative of every person you'd classify as chinese.
A non-citizen's freedom of movement must never supercede a citizen's right to defend their self-government. Besides, if anyone is serious about becoming a US citizen, they can immigrate legally and become naturalized, just like I did.
The only problems with this, is that there's really no difference between a citizen and a non-citizen, don't let anyone fool you. Sure thinking as a citizen, and being nationalistic has lead people to put bombs in other countries and be generally nasty to some people they don't even know, but perhaps by realizing that there's no difference, such types of hatred could be worked against. Now if by circumstance of birth I'm not a citizen of X why should that change how I'm treated? Certainly one can naturalize, but its not as easy for some. Think of it this way: you're born in india, you live in say france for a bit, and you're a citizen of some EU country. Now you want to spend a few years in the US, and citizenship is open to all; great! but you'll have to drop your other citizenships and never again be quite welcome in France or India unless you're on a limited vacation, and switching takes a number of months to years depending. [not all of us are sought after theoretical physicists welcome in any country].
Finally, I'm glad you didn't argue about taxes, but I thought I'd point it out for others: regardless of citizenship, people living in the US for a certain amount of time in the year are taxable on their income worldwide by the IRS. But if you're a US citizen even if you don't live in the US, then you're still taxable worldwide, and I find that last bit a mite strange.
-Daniel
There are already two responses refuting this as an isolated incident involving not checking your mail. They've been moded to 0.
I just /need/ to say that by far, speakeasy has been the best provider of service I've ever dealt with, except maybe my electric company, they're nice people too.
However, with verizon offering a competing DSL service, and being in a possition to install a new line or hook up your existing on (they tend towards the former here in MA), the service we get from them is lacking. They actually delayed for about 2 months, and then phoned us to offer DSL service from them, promissing that installation would be prompt.
-Daniel
-Daniel
Now what should end is the enforcements of borders. There's nothing more hypocritical to an ideoligy of freedom and equal rights for all humans than a border with INS officials starting with the assumption of "What right do you have to be here?"
-Daniel
Realistically, this would never work for any of bungie's stuff; it may work wonderfully for the people, if they take a year long vacation or something first.
-Daniel
Unfortunately in the future I predict that enough people interested in gaming and MS will apply at and transfer into Bungie, such that the pressure from within the organization of Bungie itself will force a large degree of MS conformity.
-Daniel
True; sort of. They got it from digital who designed it. I mean is Tru64[Digital Unix] compaq's? No. Its not changed enough to be anything but Digital's Unix. The SA110 and SA1100 arn't changed one bit (other than the logo printed on them)... But Intel does
Used to be anyone could buy an SA direct from Digital in quanitities of 1 for $26 [At least that's what MadDog said when he spoke about how cool they were and Digital was still around]. That really promoted hobbyists to be interested in it; but now I can't seem to find a decent way to get one without buying 10,000 or a development kit (a couple hundred dollars). Damn Damn Damn.
Course if you have any suggestions for getting a couple chips to build something fun with, please do tell.
UltraSPARC-IIe for low-end embedded applications. It has 256Kb on-die L2, and pretty much the whole chipset on-die too and can use PC100 SDRAM, apparantly. The 400MHz part is $145 in volume and the 500MHz part is $225 in volume. They're pretty power efficient too - 8W max for 400, 13W max for 500.
Now, I wouldn't claim that that's particularly power efficient. compare to:
- A PowerPC (MPC750@400Mhz) MAX 5.8W
- Digital's StrongArm (SA110@233) MAX 1W
- [I couldn't find MIPS R4000 info]
Granted the Intel Chips use a lot of power, but I'm not sure the USparcIIe is actually applicable to something like a laptop. -DanielI'm not American so I wouldn't care about creating a corporation in my state (although I do see how someone else might find it appealing). Besides which some states/cities require that you own/rent a commercial building (thats much more expensive than a plaque). And wouldn't you want to be an international corporation anyway? Oh and I've been told a virtual company name can be about as cheap as $20 which is what I was really suggesting anyway.
I await the day people recognize that the US city and county names are incredibly unoriginal; although I commend you on great state names... although Florida and Louisiana were not thought up by Americans (nor, would the locals claim, was Texas), but there are 50 of them and they're mostly unique. I mean how many Londons Bristols, Parises and other more minor Cities names does one country need? near 3 of each it seems. (notice how awkward pluralizing a city's name is). I wish there was a DB of city founding dates and name change dates so that we could quite clearly see who came first.
Sorry but that book falls into my very large category of books that are useless.
-Daniel
Most projects, have 3 letters and one person:
CVS and the guy who approves changes and/or does most of the work.
By the time Open Source (the good stuff) is released its all-ready pretty pollished and/or has an established framework and scope of application.
Hence yes, there is central organization. But the advantage is that said organization comes usually from those with detailed technical knowledge.
-Daniel
Absolutely; DHL is great, they could deliver to dubai in the UAE 10 years ago in a couple of days rather than the months it takes to normally get/send stuff.
So, I suggest going to town hall, and registering a virtual company (I believe that's what its called). Its basically a name that's like to your name; then you open a bank account to accept money in that name or pay in that name. The IRS will probably want to set it up with a unique tax ID, but then perhaps that's not necessary since a virtual company is not limited in anyway. (i.e. you are personally liable for the operations of that company, which is okay for a small thing).
Then go to DHL and get them to do it right with this company name.
Alternatively, The Island of Nassau in the Bahamas has this deal that you pay them money yearly to have a corporation, they officially give you an employee that does the local paperwork, and a plaque on the wall of a building (that looks like its made of plaques). But this is costly, and only really necessary if you need incorporation for yourself, which I don't really need... but I found its available so... I don't know how to contact them and set this sort of thing up though, sorry.
-Daniel
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a company that indexes data should never out-right remove data from its index unless its incorrect. I mean making that MD directory dissapear to create more hits for yahoo is counter the aims of the google engine [to get you information].
Now, maybe its financially sound for them to do it since yahoo gives them money, but its a bad trend to start since the more people who are willing to pay (and I bet there's a bunch) the less your going to be able to get from each them in the end (for example its hard to push advertising prices up unless its a special event or something). I think such a financial outlook is short termed and potentially dammaging to their reputation, which is a terribly important factor for sites like these.
-Daniel
With that geoport/telephony feature you could get it to search through information (like your email's inbox) and read you text files. There was talk of a commercial program that pluged into the apple scripts to allow you to take dictation (i.e. reply to mail), but I never saw that. So there's nothing great about this.
But when eventually such voice tasks can be done in the palm (/maybe/ with a SA1100(strongArm) but they don't do FP), then that will be something good and new.
-Daniel
[busy manager to operator]: slash -- dot ?
[operator]: he claims its a popular website for "geeks" pertaining particularly to linux then open source.
[busy manager]: okay; whats this about?
I mean realistically I don't think slashdot registers with most people, just those of us who seem to have forgotten how to browse the web for ourselves [damn you guys, now I can't go anywhere without it being a direct or mildly removed link from a slashdot story].
But yes, I agree, why couldn't we just ask a few quick direct questions:
- why is there no longer a mention of the press release about a legal DVD player for linux on your website?
- you seems to have delayed quite a few months, at least 2 most recently. Do you expect that there is any certainty that this product will become a reality?
-Daniel
[busy manager to operator]: slash -- dot ?
[operator]: he claims its a popular website for "geeks" pertaining particularly to linux then open source.
[busy manager]: okay; whats this about?
I mean realistically I don't think slashdot registers with most people, just those of us who seem to have forgotten how to browse the web for ourselves [damn you guys, now I can't go anywhere without it being a direct or mildly removed link from a slashdot story].
But yes, I agree, why couldn't we just ask a few quick direct questions:
- why is there no longer a mention of the press release about a legal DVD player for linux on your website?
- you seems to have delayed quite a few months, at least 2 most recently. Do you expect that there is any certainty that this product will become a reality?
-Daniel
Notice how this camera has leasing options. "We can't reasonably expect you to pay $24,000 for part of a camera, but we'll let you use it for a while..."
-Daniel
-Daniel
At one unnamed agency, all 1,100 users had been granted access to sensitive system directories and settings, the GAO found.
As far as this is concerned. I'd like to think that organizations can be secure enough in other ways to not have to have co-workers hiding information from co-workers that are possibly right next to them.
-Daniel