The HP 5L had a terrible feed problem because they relied on gravity to pull in the paper. They would like to suck in 8 pages at a time. I owned one that had this problem, and found a lot of users online complaining about it. It seemed to crop up after a couple thousand pages. HP told users to be sure their printers were on stable, horizontal surfaces (duh), but not much else.
I don't know if this was corrected in the 6L, but I won't be buying a gravity feed printer again.
Cutting your warranty by 2/3 does not indicate much confidence in your product. If the smaller capacity platters are more reliable, I'll stick with them.
Phillips collaborated with Sony on this. They share the licensing rights.
They will stamp both CD and SACD on the Rolling Stones CDs, since they play on both types of players. IF the format catches on, expect future releases to work on on SACD.
Phillips, which developed the CD standard, collaborated with Sony in developing SACD. Sony appears to be trying to avoid repeating the Betamax mistake by licensing the technology.
I'm not happy about the watermarking, and won't buy them at first, but I think it has a good chance of catching on, since the transition path is virtually transparent, and costs nearly identical.
The audio quality of SACD is significantly better than traditional CDs, even on typical home audio systems.
The players still have analog outputs. I suspect mp3s ripped in real time will sound pretty decent.
Easy to share music from your PCs (available through an automatic future feature update)
I read this to mean that you can pull mp3s from your PC, but not send your mp3s to your pc. Thus, if you want them in both locations, you have to rip them on the PC and transfer.
Passing on the transponder and using coins won't sheild you from this type of thing. Most states put cameras at tollbooths to photograph the license plate of those who don't pay. When someone skips through a booth, a photo is taken of their license plate, OCR software reads the tag number and a ticket is generated without any human interaction. It would be trivial to write software that records the plate of each vehicle passing through, along with a timestamp.
There are two critical applications for me. Quicken was one, the other is Solidworks. I seriously doubt Solidworks will ever run well in Linux, but I maintain hope.
All of these nuisances are avoidable in Quicken. Not surprisingly, Microsoft Money is worse. It even hijacks your web browser whenever you visit a site where money can be spent.
In my opinion, the features of Quicken far outweigh its shortcomings. With a bank and brokerage that support online updating, I can download and reconcile all transactions without having to do a cumbersome, and flakey, file import. I pay bills by entering them in the register, then clicking 'online update'. Its investment tracking tools are unsurpassed. It tracks everything from mortgage interest to capital gains to IRA contributions to tell me where I stand with the government at any moment. gnuCash is coming along, but it's closer to managing your finances with a spreadsheet than the features Quicken and Money have. With a little finagling, I've managed to turn off all the ads, and I've never given any information to Intuit's website.
And don't get me started on using Quicken and Turbo Tax in April.
President Bush's top cybersecurity adviser, Richard Clarke, said the technology industry was acting irresponsibly by selling wireless tools such as computer network devices that remain remarkably easy for hackers to attack.
The industry's most common data-scrambling technique designed to keep out eavesdroppers, called the wireless encryption protocol, can be broken -- usually in less than five minutes -- with software available on the Internet.
A few years ago, the U.S. government attempted to make all encryption crackable by government agencies by mandating key escrow or weak encryption. At one point, they even tried to jail Phil Zimmermann for creating and publishing PGP. Now they're berating vendors for making encryption in their products too weak and have become advocates for strong consumer encryption. Other countries that have had no encryption controls in the past are now trying to adopt key escrow requirements.
I find the reversal fascinating. Few easier ways exist to execute an electronic wiretap than to packet-sniff the subject's WiFi connection. I'm curious if there are internal struggles over encryption policy.
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I proposed something very similar for mp3s about a year ago on kuro5hin. There were some good comments on the idea's merits and drawbacks.
Frankly, when I contribute to a discussion forum, I'm in a relatively frivolous state of mind, and I think it is the case for most of us.
Your state of mind is irrelevant. The forum is open, public and addressed to a general audience, as opposed to email or IM, which is personal and directed in a limited fashion. It may not be like a journal article, but it is analogous to a debate held in public. You can't fault someone for quoting you.
Last, you mentioned that I was already an adult seven years ago. True, but, had I been 15 years old in 1995, the problem would have been the same.
"The problem", as you term it, is not one inherent in the system. It arises only from the irresponsible actions of some of its participants. Those participants have no cause for demanding changes in the record.
You raise an interesting question regarding minors, however. It's reasonable to assume that childish speech by a child is less likely to haunt that person down the road than childish speech by an adult. I don't think minors should be barred from public discourse, so their speech becomes just as much a matter of public record as ours.
Look at the bright side. Some day our kids will read this discussion and have a nice laugh at us.
You were an adult. It's a public forum. The exercise of free speech has consequences.
It's not "a real issue" in the sense that your writings should be handled in any other way. I'm disappointed that google is willing to delete records from the only usenet archive at the author's request. This is like the NYT being willing to remove from their archives a published letter to the editor.
I have about six such addresses. I create a new one each time the old on gets overwhelmed with spam. I'm sick of dealing with it, so I simply don't participate. I think others are, also. Hopefully folks will realize this to be the case stop trying to require registration.
The real-world analogues to these types of promotions don't use similar tactics, because they know doing so is silly. When I'm offered a free sample at the grocery, I'm not asked for my phone number.
In order to learn the secret location of a geek get together in your area, you must submit your email address.
The site promises that I won't be spammed, but I have found repeatedly that many companies don't share my definition of spam. More often than not, when a company promises not to use my email address for spam, what they mean is that they won't sell my address (for now). However, they don't consider sending me a weekly newsletter consisting soley of product ads to be spam.
Actually, I think this is a good example of how product design should be driven by observing how people try to use things. A physically-remappable keyboard could be a good thing. I'd probably buy one.
I appreciate that he uses a lot of text for analysis. Ten years of email and C++ code are nice additions. However, the inclusion of the King James Bible and a few other works may have skewed the results somewhat, as shown by the presence of the word "thou" in the most-often used words list.
So if I wish to publish something that I'm concerned will get me slap-suited, such as a critique of a leader of a well-financed cult, can I bury it in my website in such a fashion that search engines are unlikely to find it, but a visitor could still stumble across it, wait a year, then post it on the front page?
What is a good method for making a document technically available, but unlikely to be spidered. Too many engines ignore spider.txt. How about placing it behind a form entry?
Exactly my point. If 10% of AOL users have just one site that they're used to using, especially one so important as a bank, this is over a million new customer complaints. And 10% is probably very conservative.
Think about it. You're AOL and half of America's internet subscribers go through you. Because 95% of surfers are using IE, sites are built to display on IE. Many sites are designed to display properly in IE, standards be damned, meaning they don't work on a properly performing browser. Many don't allow anything but IE to use their services.
Now, to convert your entire userbase to Netscape will mean a significant portion of sites will no longer look correct or will cease to work entirely. Your customers don't understand browser compliance, they merely know that they could visit sites with AOL 7, but not AOL 8. Is the deluge of customer support phone calls and email really worth the hassle?
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The HP 5L had a terrible feed problem because they relied on gravity to pull in the paper. They would like to suck in 8 pages at a time. I owned one that had this problem, and found a lot of users online complaining about it. It seemed to crop up after a couple thousand pages. HP told users to be sure their printers were on stable, horizontal surfaces (duh), but not much else.
I don't know if this was corrected in the 6L, but I won't be buying a gravity feed printer again.
I'll take 80GB and the original warranty, please.
Cutting your warranty by 2/3 does not indicate much confidence in your product. If the smaller capacity platters are more reliable, I'll stick with them.
It's amazing how much easier this game is using a keyboard interface than the old Atari 2600 joystick.
Phillips collaborated with Sony on this. They share the licensing rights.
They will stamp both CD and SACD on the Rolling Stones CDs, since they play on both types of players. IF the format catches on, expect future releases to work on on SACD.
Phillips, which developed the CD standard, collaborated with Sony in developing SACD. Sony appears to be trying to avoid repeating the Betamax mistake by licensing the technology.
I'm not happy about the watermarking, and won't buy them at first, but I think it has a good chance of catching on, since the transition path is virtually transparent, and costs nearly identical.
The audio quality of SACD is significantly better than traditional CDs, even on typical home audio systems.
The players still have analog outputs. I suspect mp3s ripped in real time will sound pretty decent.
I find a quote that reads:
Easy to share music from your PCs (available through an automatic future feature update)
I read this to mean that you can pull mp3s from your PC, but not send your mp3s to your pc. Thus, if you want them in both locations, you have to rip them on the PC and transfer.
Passing on the transponder and using coins won't sheild you from this type of thing. Most states put cameras at tollbooths to photograph the license plate of those who don't pay. When someone skips through a booth, a photo is taken of their license plate, OCR software reads the tag number and a ticket is generated without any human interaction. It would be trivial to write software that records the plate of each vehicle passing through, along with a timestamp.
There are two critical applications for me. Quicken was one, the other is Solidworks. I seriously doubt Solidworks will ever run well in Linux, but I maintain hope.
- Under the 'General' tab of quicken options, select "Hide advertisements in online financial center"
- Under the 'Startup' tab, select 'none'
- Customize the 'My Finances' page to remove the alerts box. This feature does nothing for me, anyway.
- Right-click the alert bar at the bottom and select the option that removes the alert bar.
- Remove all Quicken items from Windows' Start folder.
That's all I remember. Like I said, it took some doing, but I don't remember seeing an ad since January.All of these nuisances are avoidable in Quicken. Not surprisingly, Microsoft Money is worse. It even hijacks your web browser whenever you visit a site where money can be spent.
In my opinion, the features of Quicken far outweigh its shortcomings. With a bank and brokerage that support online updating, I can download and reconcile all transactions without having to do a cumbersome, and flakey, file import. I pay bills by entering them in the register, then clicking 'online update'. Its investment tracking tools are unsurpassed. It tracks everything from mortgage interest to capital gains to IRA contributions to tell me where I stand with the government at any moment. gnuCash is coming along, but it's closer to managing your finances with a spreadsheet than the features Quicken and Money have. With a little finagling, I've managed to turn off all the ads, and I've never given any information to Intuit's website.
And don't get me started on using Quicken and Turbo Tax in April.
Then the world was invaded by the likes of PCLink, the Commodore 64 version of PCLink and the Mac based version which bore the same name
The name you're looking for is "Q-Link"
Man, I miss Q-Link. Tight little community where everyone was polite. Helluva chess room, too.
Of course, I don't miss the price ($0.06/min). I remember when my folks got a $100 bill one month.
President Bush's top cybersecurity adviser, Richard Clarke, said the technology industry was acting irresponsibly by selling wireless tools such as computer network devices that remain remarkably easy for hackers to attack.
The industry's most common data-scrambling technique designed to keep out eavesdroppers, called the wireless encryption protocol, can be broken -- usually in less than five minutes -- with software available on the Internet.
A few years ago, the U.S. government attempted to make all encryption crackable by government agencies by mandating key escrow or weak encryption. At one point, they even tried to jail Phil Zimmermann for creating and publishing PGP. Now they're berating vendors for making encryption in their products too weak and have become advocates for strong consumer encryption. Other countries that have had no encryption controls in the past are now trying to adopt key escrow requirements.
I find the reversal fascinating. Few easier ways exist to execute an electronic wiretap than to packet-sniff the subject's WiFi connection. I'm curious if there are internal struggles over encryption policy.
I proposed something very similar for mp3s about a year ago on kuro5hin. There were some good comments on the idea's merits and drawbacks.
Here is a link.
Frankly, when I contribute to a discussion forum, I'm in a relatively frivolous state of mind, and I think it is the case for most of us.
Your state of mind is irrelevant. The forum is open, public and addressed to a general audience, as opposed to email or IM, which is personal and directed in a limited fashion. It may not be like a journal article, but it is analogous to a debate held in public. You can't fault someone for quoting you.
Last, you mentioned that I was already an adult seven years ago. True, but, had I been 15 years old in 1995, the problem would have been the same.
"The problem", as you term it, is not one inherent in the system. It arises only from the irresponsible actions of some of its participants. Those participants have no cause for demanding changes in the record.
You raise an interesting question regarding minors, however. It's reasonable to assume that childish speech by a child is less likely to haunt that person down the road than childish speech by an adult. I don't think minors should be barred from public discourse, so their speech becomes just as much a matter of public record as ours.
Look at the bright side. Some day our kids will read this discussion and have a nice laugh at us.
You were an adult. It's a public forum. The exercise of free speech has consequences.
It's not "a real issue" in the sense that your writings should be handled in any other way. I'm disappointed that google is willing to delete records from the only usenet archive at the author's request. This is like the NYT being willing to remove from their archives a published letter to the editor.
I have about six such addresses. I create a new one each time the old on gets overwhelmed with spam. I'm sick of dealing with it, so I simply don't participate. I think others are, also. Hopefully folks will realize this to be the case stop trying to require registration.
The real-world analogues to these types of promotions don't use similar tactics, because they know doing so is silly. When I'm offered a free sample at the grocery, I'm not asked for my phone number.
In order to learn the secret location of a geek get together in your area, you must submit your email address.
The site promises that I won't be spammed, but I have found repeatedly that many companies don't share my definition of spam. More often than not, when a company promises not to use my email address for spam, what they mean is that they won't sell my address (for now). However, they don't consider sending me a weekly newsletter consisting soley of product ads to be spam.
Actually, I think this is a good example of how product design should be driven by observing how people try to use things. A physically-remappable keyboard could be a good thing. I'd probably buy one.
I appreciate that he uses a lot of text for analysis. Ten years of email and C++ code are nice additions. However, the inclusion of the King James Bible and a few other works may have skewed the results somewhat, as shown by the presence of the word "thou" in the most-often used words list.
So if I wish to publish something that I'm concerned will get me slap-suited, such as a critique of a leader of a well-financed cult, can I bury it in my website in such a fashion that search engines are unlikely to find it, but a visitor could still stumble across it, wait a year, then post it on the front page?
What is a good method for making a document technically available, but unlikely to be spidered. Too many engines ignore spider.txt. How about placing it behind a form entry?
successful financially (and by this, I mean is able to operate without going under)
As RedHat is yet to turn a profit, and it remains questionable whether she ever will, I would say she is in certain danger of going under.
I'm a little slow here, but what is to keep an intelligent intruder from resetting the software that tells you an intrusion took place?
I'd feel better will tamper-evident tape, but maybe I don't understand this system.
Exactly my point. If 10% of AOL users have just one site that they're used to using, especially one so important as a bank, this is over a million new customer complaints. And 10% is probably very conservative.
Think about it. You're AOL and half of America's internet subscribers go through you. Because 95% of surfers are using IE, sites are built to display on IE. Many sites are designed to display properly in IE, standards be damned, meaning they don't work on a properly performing browser. Many don't allow anything but IE to use their services.
Now, to convert your entire userbase to Netscape will mean a significant portion of sites will no longer look correct or will cease to work entirely. Your customers don't understand browser compliance, they merely know that they could visit sites with AOL 7, but not AOL 8. Is the deluge of customer support phone calls and email really worth the hassle?
I think chess is boring, repetitive, and memory based.
You obviously aren't very good at chess.