I say this in jest. There are more than one reason to be interested in crypto, but when bitcoin suddenly went from 1BTC=USD$1 to $1BTC=USD$100 (I don't actually know when the boom happened--I wasn't watching that closely) the individualist, libertarians were obscured by the quick-buck types looking to turn their thousand into a million. Thats when the scammers all came out.
yup. my salary and everyone else at my organization is published every year by the local newspaper. We aren't required to publish it ourselves, but if anyone asks, we are required to reveal it, so the local paper files a request every year and publishes it.
not a plumber--some contortions are sometimes involved to get into tight spaces (not as bad as my brother who is an auto mechanic when he has to get under the dash.) But I have put my name in for the position that drives the lawn mower for my wind down at the end of my career.
I don't reccomend Valis for anyone but the most diehard Dick fans. Its an attempt to fictionalize an experience Dick had and spent the rest of his life trying to understand. It has some great moments, but it doesn't hold together terribly well as a story. I much prefer more focused stories like Scanner Darkly, Flow My Tears, or even Divine Invasion.
Supposedly Dick's experience conceived three published novels--Valis, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, and Divine invasion. There is a fourth, unpublished novel--Radio Free Albemuth that came from it as well. Valis seem to be the most personal since it someone named Philip Dick (or Horselover Fat) having the exact same experience then trying to make sense of it. Divine Invasion has more of the feel of a traditional Dick novel with someone forced to live in a hovel on an alien planet. Timothy Archer is borderline non-SciFi, with only a tiny influence of SciFi, IIRC. And Radio Free Albemuth felt a bit like a cross between Scanner Darkly and Valis--i.e. the Valis story in a dystopian future surveilance state.
we humans tend to enjoy numerology for some reason. I remember turning 55,555.5 miles on my motorcycle and stopping to take a photo. It turns out I was on a small back road with a 55mph speed limit, and I was close to a "Speed Limit 55", unfortunately I could get that into the photo as well.
I've read that vitamin D can play a role in cancer prevention at a cellular level. Our bodies synthesize vitamin D using UVB in sunlight. You'll notice that most of the states at the bottom of the list (except DC ?!?) are sunny places, so I wouldn't be surprised if that is a contributing factor.
that could be it. I wouldn't have thought APL just because, well APL is so far out there with so many custom glyphs. Thanks, I'll have to dig more into this.
I'm curious if anyone remembers this--I remember an ad, probably in Byte magazine, for a laptop (this was way before laptops were commonplace.) It was thin and kind of teardrop shaped, and instead of BASIC, the built in programming language was Ada. I doubt it ever shipped, because 30 years later I've never been able to find anything about it, though I'd be curious to know if my memory is playing tricks on me.
damn, you're way ahead of me, almost double my number. I haven't looked into local backups. I'll have to see how that is done (and buy a bigger harddrive.) I didn't really realize that Apple made this possible since I only use an AppleTV to purchase and view movies.
I currently "own" 493 movies on iTunes. I don't use any streaming servies because my experience with them has been horrible--a couple dozen movies I want to watch with hundreds or thousands of filler movies that I have no interest in. When I started buying, I went into it with my eyes open. Apple seemed to be the safest option for companies that would be around for some time and unlikely to pull the plug on a service that wasn't doing as well as hoped. I've never had content pulled.
I'm the sort of person that like to rewatch things. As a kid I rewatched Star Wars so many times that I knew the lines in the entire movie by heart, these days the Big Lebowski is comfort food that I'll throw on when I'm bored. So the "rent" option on iTunes never made sense to me. And my concern with something like Netflix is--will it be there when I want to rewatch it?
If Apple ever gets out of the game I hope they give an out for people who have bought things, but I'm not optimistic. I'm less worried about them pulling content they lost a license to because I hope that licensing for purchase is a different world than licensing for free streaming.
(Also, remember that this is exactly the same for app stores. I did have an app pulled that I paid for. So it does happen, I'm just hopeful that it doesn't very often.)
EDIT: I just looked and I own two copies of David Lynch's "Lost Highway" (a mistake since I already owned it, and later saw it on sale and bought it without checking my list. It had changed hands and was being sold by a different distributor.) I searched for it on a non-logged-in computer and its not available to purchase at all. While this is a guarantee of nothing, it suggests that Apple's licensing with the movie rights owners may retain rights beyond the termination of the license.
I don’t know the specific setup, but the app passes you to AAD which passes you to a SAML source (Okta in this instance, but we use Cisco Duo). The SAML provider authenticates you, sets a cookie, then sends you back to AAD, which sets its own cookie, then passes you back to the App. (Or something like that.) if the next app you sign into is an AAD app, you pass through quickly, but if the next app you sign into uses SAML directly you have a cookie set for that as well.
We use AAD for O365 and the few apps that won’t use generic SAML, but everything else uses Duo directly. The reason for this is at our O365 license level we don’t get the ability to restrict access to applications by AD group—everyone or we have to manually manage access account by account.
yup. I live the Peter principle every day. Its really that your promoted because you were good at your old job, but that doesn't guarantee that you are good at your new job, and eventually you get promoted to a job you're not good at. Where I work, a lot of excellent tech people have been promoted into management positions, and we all suck at it. We're better at tech.
in fairness the old XP/Server 2003 notepad would frequently freak out on me and suddenly remove all <CR> (or <LF>, I don't really know) from a file I was editing (not a unix or mac generated file, so it was not a <CR><LF> issue.) That would force me to quit and reload the file and start my edits over again. This was almost always on servers, so I never bothered to find a fix or workaround, but it made me never trust notepad. So old notepad sucked, and apparently new notepad sucks.
I don't know how it did it, but the old DOS version of MS word actually displayed bold/italic/underline in the DOS terminal. It wasn't WYSIWYG but the display was a bit nicer than Wordstar.
This reminds me of a thought I had a few years ago. A Sheriff in my state was arresting for buying IT equipment using department funds (I think it was Cisco gear) and selling it on eBay and pocketing the cash. He had done this a bunch of times. As someone who works in local government and knows how things work here, my thought was instantly the following:
-> some gear get purchased bet never used/installed for a few years. Sits around gathering dust.
-> Sheriff sees this, takes it home sells it on eBay. Nobody notices or cares. It wasn't being used after all.
-> Sheriff finds other unused gear, takes home and sells it.
-> No valuable unused gear left, so Sheriff starts buying stuff simply so he could take it home and sell it.
-> At this point it is noticed. Seriff gets found out and arrested.
If it was just the first step, nobody would have noticed and the guy would have pocketed $20k or whatever, and no one in the world would have been the wiser. The auditors may have eventually discovered the piece missing, but long after any video recordings expired, and the original purchase was perfectly legit. But greed combined with stupidity got the guy arrested.
they are similar yet very different. Stalker focuses on a single journey into the Zone, Rodaside picnic focuses on the life and world surrounding the zone. I've always said that Roadside Picnic is dark realist SciFi that dabbles in Philosophy, while Stalker is Philosopy that dabbles in dark realist SciFi.
still have a 2000 upgraded to 2100 in a closet somewhere. At some level the iPhone was such a disappoinment after having owned a Newton, becuase the early iPhone, even after the introduction of the app store, felt like a bunch of siloed apps, where the Newton "soup" allowed fairly seamless extensibility and interoperability. (well, at least it felt like that in the 90's.)
I sometimes suspect I'll continue to drive my 20 year old gas powered vehicle until I can't buy gas anymore. Its not that I want a gas vehicle, but that the rise of EVs coincides with a complete re-thinking of the automotive model that I /really/ don't want--subscription services, touch screens, "connected".
As someone that has a very difficult time managing my real life, I've reduced my periodic payments to mortgage, utilities, internet, phone, insurance. No netflix, no streaming music services, no amazon prime. And even then I frequently forget or mis-budget. I really don't want to add 100 monthly fees to do this or that.
my peeve is that if you bring up the terrain map, you see topo lines, but they disappear the moment you get close enough to actually read the elevation of the lines.
My father shot thousands of slides when we lived in Nigeria in the mid 70's. He still has them, but I have started scanning them myself with Pentax DSLR, and macro bellows with slide copying attachment. It been pretty fun--I was 5-6 at during this time, so some of it lines up with my oldest memories. I've found that the Kodachrome slides have have held up much better than the other (mostly Ektachrome) slides. The colors on the Kodachrome look like they were shot yesterday.
My father also has a bunch of super 8 shot by his parents, but I really don't have anything to convert those well, so he sent them off for conversion. Among other things it includes footage of mygrandparents vacationing in Cuba before the revolution.
this page makes a comment that I wish more site developers understood–no results to my search is a much more meaningful result than changing my search to provide results I didn't ask for.
On the other hand, many of the vacants in Philadelphia are vacant because the owner has fled because the back taxes are more than the building is worth.
All of the ones I participate on specifically don’t lock old threads, and for specific discussions, it’s expected that instead of making a new post on the Prophet 12, you look up the old one and add your post to it. If found forums that lock old thread to be very annoying, and I generally don’t use them for that reason. Discussions can easily spread over a decade, and that mega thread is a wealth of information.
Lots of reasons, but one of the big ones is a year round growing season. It’s never so cold that you can’t grow, so over the course of a year the same field may host four or five crops. The other big ones is that it started when there was a reasonable flow of water, and not very many competing interests. I love a couple miles from the Rio Grande, which in the past was wet year round, but now it has water maybe 5% of the time (it was stored in Elephant Butte lake, but now that’s down to historically low levers like everything else in the southwest.
I miss dyn.com. They were my registrar for over a decade before Oracle bought then and made them suck. They were the one registrer where you felt like you were dealing with a professional company, not "Crazy Eddie's discount Domains". When Oracle closed them down, I moved to namecheap, which is pretty good overall.