I was underwhelmed by the roomba when I saw it operate in person. The guys' cats loved it, but there are a couple of problems:
* it has no idea where it is. It might vacuum the same spot 5 times and never hit the other half of the room or hallway.
* the 'algorithm' to find a big spiral to vac is pretty stupid. Basically it just bounces around in random patterns, trying to fit a big spiral into it.
* it seems like it wouldn't have been hard to make it find a charger and dock over a charging paddle. Here come the trolls^Hposts to refute this, but it turns it into little more than a child's toy.
Sure, it's only $200, but it wouldn't replace your normal vac.
So you break it into text, then use sed and grep. What's the problem?:-)
The real spreadsheet abuse was loading it into a spreadsheet in the first place. What's wrong with a text file, or a pretty HTML tabled version, considering it was posted to a website? I blame that on the webmasters of Slyck News, whoever they are.
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if you expect [your awesome destined for greatness band] to be all over one of Apple's pages, forget it. the reason CDBaby will take your $40 is because ~that is all they will make from you.~ ~you~ still need to get people to the ITMS or wherever else they promote. you'll make more money selling your cd's to your mom directly than having her go to some website.
Finally. Someone gets it. You are paying the $40 as a crap filter- a way of raising the bar a little to keep the sludge out. The main problem (you hit it on the head) is bands that think they are the Next Big Thing and they don't need to do anything.
Want to make it big on a mp3.com type site? Put your music up, and spend all of your time promoting your band. The site won't do that for you.
Wow, that's a pretty bad interpretation of how my.mp3.com worked. No ripping or uploading was involved.
Roughly, a CD was 'scanned' (checksummed) to determine what CD it was, and if it was a copy. If it was determined to be correct, you listened to MP3.com's ripped MP3s of the CD. Various attempts were used to make sure you weren't sharing your username and password.
The trouble came because MP3.com was still letting you listen to _their_ CD, not yours.
plane fair? What, you ride planes instead of the normal fair rides?
Seriously, the advantage of Vegas is the exhibition and meeting space. There are a plethora of moderately priced hotels and convention space, so you can get a bunch of geeks together. Plus, there are easy flights from most US cities direct to Vegas, most reasonably priced. Cab rides are only a few dollars from the airport to the hotel, since everything is located close to the Strip.
Then there is SF: too many people and buildings crammed on a little peninsula, incredibly expensive hotels and conference space, inconvenient to the rest of the US- especially the East Coast, overcrowded airport and roads, need I continue?
The linux/freenetworks movement isn't about spending dot-com cash in flashy Bay Area venues. Vegas fits- tacky, but cheap and accessible.
Not to mention the geek factor of CSI.
Personally, I hate Vegas. But it's good for conventions.
Hmm. So most cities don't have an even dispersion of cell phones among various neighborhoods. I'm betting that lower-class people are less likely to have a cell phone, and less likely to talk on it while driving.
So would a system like this under-report the traffic in lower-class neighborhoods? Would that cause more money to be poured into traffic mitigation in higher-class neighborhoods, simply because there are more doctors and lawyers talking on their cell phones?
Think laundry. You always need quarters. Just send a couple rolls and it should last a while. Make sure you tell her what it is for so she doesn't just go spend it
Yeah, because it's so annoying to be behind a college student who is buying $50 in groceries with quarters.
The problem wasn't that pedestrians swayed, but that when the bridge swayed, the pedestrians compensated to keep in balance. This caused the bridge to sway more.. you get the point.
Cars don't do this. But we move our feet to stabalize ourselves. Not too many bridges have to worry about something like this.
The fix was pretty easy too. They essentially put shock absorbers under the bridge. Just like what a car uses to keep a spring from rebounding incessantly.
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* it has no idea where it is. It might vacuum the same spot 5 times and never hit the other half of the room or hallway.
* the 'algorithm' to find a big spiral to vac is pretty stupid. Basically it just bounces around in random patterns, trying to fit a big spiral into it.
* it seems like it wouldn't have been hard to make it find a charger and dock over a charging paddle. Here come the trolls^Hposts to refute this, but it turns it into little more than a child's toy.
Sure, it's only $200, but it wouldn't replace your normal vac.
Listening to William Shatner is a felony in Texas, I think.
The real spreadsheet abuse was loading it into a spreadsheet in the first place. What's wrong with a text file, or a pretty HTML tabled version, considering it was posted to a website? I blame that on the webmasters of Slyck News, whoever they are.
Text versions on my site: http://perljam.net/misc/p2p/
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Finally. Someone gets it. You are paying the $40 as a crap filter- a way of raising the bar a little to keep the sludge out. The main problem (you hit it on the head) is bands that think they are the Next Big Thing and they don't need to do anything.
Want to make it big on a mp3.com type site? Put your music up, and spend all of your time promoting your band. The site won't do that for you.
-ted
Roughly, a CD was 'scanned' (checksummed) to determine what CD it was, and if it was a copy. If it was determined to be correct, you listened to MP3.com's ripped MP3s of the CD. Various attempts were used to make sure you weren't sharing your username and password.
The trouble came because MP3.com was still letting you listen to _their_ CD, not yours.
-ted
plane fair? What, you ride planes instead of the normal fair rides?
Seriously, the advantage of Vegas is the exhibition and meeting space. There are a plethora of moderately priced hotels and convention space, so you can get a bunch of geeks together. Plus, there are easy flights from most US cities direct to Vegas, most reasonably priced. Cab rides are only a few dollars from the airport to the hotel, since everything is located close to the Strip.
Then there is SF: too many people and buildings crammed on a little peninsula, incredibly expensive hotels and conference space, inconvenient to the rest of the US- especially the East Coast, overcrowded airport and roads, need I continue?
The linux/freenetworks movement isn't about spending dot-com cash in flashy Bay Area venues. Vegas fits- tacky, but cheap and accessible.
Not to mention the geek factor of CSI.
Personally, I hate Vegas. But it's good for conventions.
15 or 20 tracks later, I'll realize I just dropped $20
:-)
Ahh yes. They trick us with math again. If you only get 15 tracks for $20, I've got a bridge to sell you
"I said RETINAL scanner!"
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Ah. But why is a country exporting food when they are dealing with starvation?
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If you are running your own linux server, install qmail and use a dot-qmail file.
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Here's my mirror.
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So I've mirrored it.
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Hmm. So most cities don't have an even dispersion of cell phones among various neighborhoods. I'm betting that lower-class people are less likely to have a cell phone, and less likely to talk on it while driving.
So would a system like this under-report the traffic in lower-class neighborhoods? Would that cause more money to be poured into traffic mitigation in higher-class neighborhoods, simply because there are more doctors and lawyers talking on their cell phones?
-ted
Yeah, because it's so annoying to be behind a college student who is buying $50 in groceries with quarters.
-ted
The problem wasn't that pedestrians swayed, but that when the bridge swayed, the pedestrians compensated to keep in balance. This caused the bridge to sway more.. you get the point.
Cars don't do this. But we move our feet to stabalize ourselves. Not too many bridges have to worry about something like this.
The fix was pretty easy too. They essentially put shock absorbers under the bridge. Just like what a car uses to keep a spring from rebounding incessantly.
Okay, like others have mentioned, think of diff:
* determines exact matches
umm, sure, diff does that
* written in 1993
I checked man on my machine and got this date: "22sep1993"
Heh.
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Andover.net posts a profit, hires all slashdot posters
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There are tons of N's (can you say buffer overflow?) and then stuff after the N's. I've left that out to make it harder for script kiddies.
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