A bit over 3.4 years of continuous use. Not bad. Not fantastic, but not bad. I imagine you could really stretch it out with good screensavers / power management. On the one hand, I have averaged a new display every four years on my home machine (mostly due to buying new technology, not hardware failure). On the other hand, I have averaged a new display every TEN at work (only replaced on catastrophic failure (damn pinche boss)). On the gripping hand, having one color fail noticeably before the others may slow acceptance.
Is the "default state" of an unsecured URL "public" or "private"?
I hope that you intend this as a rhetorical question. The obvious answer is "public". Sharing information is what the internet was explicitly designed to do. If it is intended to be "private", either (a) use any of the readily available systems for creating access controls, or (b) don't put it on the web server.
How am I to know that membership is required if they do not ID? If I walk into a Gym and no one IDs me, I think "hey, cool. public gym. didn't know they still existed". If I stumble across a link to a TV stream, I think "hey, cool. free video. I wish they had stripped the ads." I feel it is unreasonable to expect the end user to determine if he or she should be paying for a service. If the service is pay only, it should have some method of access control. A lack of access control implies free (as in beer).
I think you may have answered your own question. Is it quicker to get some new programmer "up to speed" or redo the site from scratch? (IMHO, redo from scratch is a reasonable assumption.)
Um, wouldn't VOIP over carrier be stupidly (a) redundant and (b) expensive? I guess if your long distance charges are higher than your data charges it may make sense. But frankly, most data plans already included free nationwide long distance.
There is no way to "objectively present scientific information" in support of creationism (ID or whatever they are calling it this week). It is not falsifiable and therefore relies on the subjective opinion rather than objective fact.
Slippery slope, my left buttock. I would like to see you explain to my three year old that she needs to carry her car seat down the jetway ALONE, install it in her window seat, and wait patiently for mama and daddy to come along in 5-10 minutes. Frankly, I will suffer many indignities before I will subject myself to that.
On a side note, whatever happened to "families traveling with small children board first / early"? Seems like nobody does that any more. Fine, if you want to wait while I juggle car seat, extra carry-on, and screaming toddler... It is not that I want to spend more time on the plane (I do not). In fact, when I travel for business I board with the last group no matter what it says on my ticket. The less time on the plane, the better. I have never understood why they board frequent fliers first. Seems like a good way to loose customer, IMHO.
But to experience the PopTart is to decrease its quantity. The quality of any remaining PopTart(s) is unaffected. The quality of the PopTart that has been experienced... well, lets not talk about that.
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Nope. Rick Astley.
Look at it the other way:
Perhaps they were trying to create a more delicious whale.
I do the reverse. I set the commenting style to HTML on all the VB forums I frequent.
This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then - explode.
What? No Sloth? (you lazy bastard)
A bit over 3.4 years of continuous use. Not bad. Not fantastic, but not bad. I imagine you could really stretch it out with good screensavers / power management. On the one hand, I have averaged a new display every four years on my home machine (mostly due to buying new technology, not hardware failure). On the other hand, I have averaged a new display every TEN at work (only replaced on catastrophic failure (damn pinche boss)). On the gripping hand, having one color fail noticeably before the others may slow acceptance.
>>>> Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
>>> Yes.
>> No.
> Yes and No.
Yes OR no.
Possibly Maybe.
Probably No.
I agree. The word he should be using is "goonsquad".
No No No
We want in matter form, not energy.
I hope that you intend this as a rhetorical question. The obvious answer is "public". Sharing information is what the internet was explicitly designed to do. If it is intended to be "private", either (a) use any of the readily available systems for creating access controls, or (b) don't put it on the web server.
How am I to know that membership is required if they do not ID? If I walk into a Gym and no one IDs me, I think "hey, cool. public gym. didn't know they still existed". If I stumble across a link to a TV stream, I think "hey, cool. free video. I wish they had stripped the ads." I feel it is unreasonable to expect the end user to determine if he or she should be paying for a service. If the service is pay only, it should have some method of access control. A lack of access control implies free (as in beer).
But at the end of the day, you must ensure you are hitting milestones going forward.
Ah, I knew I was missing a piece of the puzzle. Yes, international calling would definitely make Skype worthwhile (even here, IIRC).
I think you may have answered your own question. Is it quicker to get some new programmer "up to speed" or redo the site from scratch? (IMHO, redo from scratch is a reasonable assumption.)
Um, wouldn't VOIP over carrier be stupidly (a) redundant and (b) expensive? I guess if your long distance charges are higher than your data charges it may make sense. But frankly, most data plans already included free nationwide long distance.
Nah, they would just outsource more.
LIES! It was the Invisible Pink Unicorn!
Well, you see... I have some empathy for the penguins.
There is no way to "objectively present scientific information" in support of creationism (ID or whatever they are calling it this week). It is not falsifiable and therefore relies on the subjective opinion rather than objective fact.
No. /. does not need to copy Fark.
Slippery slope, my left buttock. I would like to see you explain to my three year old that she needs to carry her car seat down the jetway ALONE, install it in her window seat, and wait patiently for mama and daddy to come along in 5-10 minutes. Frankly, I will suffer many indignities before I will subject myself to that. On a side note, whatever happened to "families traveling with small children board first / early"? Seems like nobody does that any more. Fine, if you want to wait while I juggle car seat, extra carry-on, and screaming toddler... It is not that I want to spend more time on the plane (I do not). In fact, when I travel for business I board with the last group no matter what it says on my ticket. The less time on the plane, the better. I have never understood why they board frequent fliers first. Seems like a good way to loose customer, IMHO.
*Installs NetBSD on the plush penguin*
But to experience the PopTart is to decrease its quantity. The quality of any remaining PopTart(s) is unaffected. The quality of the PopTart that has been experienced... well, lets not talk about that.
It's turtles all the way down!
Some people live to work.
Some people work to live.
Neither group fully understands the motivations of the other.