RobGR

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by RobGR 17y ago
Computers are basically free on a small scale. Most of the cost is electricity to run them and various other overhead and management. As a freelance programmer and linux sys admin, I have so many servers, desktops, older laptops, and etc
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by RobGR 17y ago
1. While it is easy to find egregious examples of unsubstantiated claims on the New York Time's Op-Ed page, this is not one of them. I don't read about the economy obsessively, but I am perfectly aware that most pundits, forecasters, and
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by RobGR 17y ago
My observations agree with yours. I have noticed that many of my age group (late 20s to early thirties) seem to be more socially conservative, especially with regards to divorce, sex, and drugs (but more accepting of homosexuality and espe
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by RobGR 17y ago
I second this. Someone mentioned the Toyota Corolla should not be included in the list, which I don't agree with (depending on the price and condition of the vehicle, of course). One option to look at it is a Chevy Prizm, which is a re-bra
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by RobGR 17y ago
I think the idea is sound. However, my experiences with Java have been so consistently horrible that I won't bother to try it as is. If you make a native application that I can install, and make sure the download is a few megabytes at most
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by RobGR 17y ago
A few points: 1) If you at the point of considering living in your office, then you are past the point of worrying about social acceptability. Don't pay attention to what we say, it sounds like you need to figure out if you will get away w
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by RobGR 17y ago
As a stop-gap measure, you might find that one of the extensions or plugins that let's you edit text boxes in a browser using vim or emacs would help in using gmail.
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by RobGR 17y ago
I currently use gnus in xemacs. I don't like it, but it is better than the other options I have tried. However, I may revist mutt, it has been a long time since I messed with that. I originally went to gnus because I am on a lot of mailing
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by RobGR 17y ago
It seems that your location independent business consists mainly of making web sites abouthow to run a location independent business. It used to be possible for a good writer such as Samuel Clemens to simply travel the world and fund it by
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by RobGR 17y ago
Your analogy is more wrong than right. It is right in the sense that ordering from a menu at a restaurant can be a kind of code, but it is really just a subset of the common language useable by anyone. If you don't understand what you wil
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by RobGR 17y ago
I cannot remember ever purchasing food over the internet. However, I have driven 30 or 40 miles to go to a speciality ethnic grocery store or farmer's market to get a specialty food I learned about over the internet. Perhaps you should look
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by RobGR 17y ago
I would pay for good access with long article expire times, to only to comp.* and sci.* and the other useful text-only groups. I have never downloaded any binary file from a newsgroup, and I have been using them since about 1994.
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by RobGR 17y ago
I don't think seeing ads helps your "market sense" or any other type of good sense. The ads are generally designed to make you spend money, and usually that doesn't involve making you smarter. That would be like watching television commerc
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by RobGR 17y ago
I aggressively block all the ads I can, with the exception of the google text ads. I might start blocking those too. I have different browsers I use at my client's offices, on which ads are not blocked, so I see the ads then. I occasional
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by RobGR 18y ago
http://www.cineflashplayer.com/ Click on the products part to see that they sell through kiosks.
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by RobGR 18y ago
I think Buffalo produced something like this called the "yellow box" or something. It is getting easier and easier for a low-capital business to produce something like this. If you are interested in looking at this commercially send me an
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by RobGR 18y ago
Voted up, because I am actually planning to pay for a giganews feed, now that Time Warner killed there usenet servers.
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by RobGR 18y ago
These events remind me of Operation Sundevil and the raid on Steve Jackson Games, described in Bruce Sterling's book "The Hacker Crackdown".
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by RobGR 18y ago
Google AdWords, Facebook Ads, a VoIP provider for a 1-888 number to an asterisk machine (vitelity.net). After that, it's just business class internet service and the electric company . . . I say screw all this hosting, cloud hosting, and bu
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by RobGR 18y ago
What do you mean, "espousing a social-contract model" ? The authority to create a copyright law is explicity granted in the US Constitution for the precise purpose of a greater social good, "to promote the useful Arts and Sciences". So
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by RobGR 18y ago
Yes, but copying a banknote is akin to "copying" my signature onto a check. It's a form of forgery, not of information propagation.
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by RobGR 18y ago
Does anyone have any experience based advice, on whether a side job that paid less but did not involve computers or any relation to the startup (for example, being a night stocker in a grocery store) would be better than a day job programmi
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by RobGR 18y ago
I have emailed that link to someone who implemented a system that would probably fall under that patent in the 1990s.
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by RobGR 18y ago
Yeah, I agree - the negotiation comes in when someone says they are rated too low, asks to talk to the review comittee about it, and leaves when they don't get it. That said, I think this system is probably superior to most.
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by RobGR 18y ago
I have done this via writing my own system. At one workplace I had perl scripts that ran on every Unix machine there at night (about 60 Sun's on engineer's desktops) that checked with a central repository, locked a task, and downloaded it a
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by RobGR 18y ago
That's what I think too. But look at how often car radiators and air conditioner coils have to be replaced. Hopefully since this doesn't have to hold pressure, or work at very high temperatures, it should last longer than the house.
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by RobGR 18y ago
I don't have experience in this, but there are some actual numbers in this article: http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comm... Good Luck !
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by RobGR 18y ago
I have tried AdWords and Facebook. They worked in the sense that people visited my site, but they did not work in the sense that no one bought anything from me; however that may be due to my site and product, not the advertising.
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by RobGR 18y ago
I enjoyed reading Mr. Stallman's proposal. I support it and I would like the abilities he mentions, to turn off and replace javascript, to be included in Firefox. Most of what you say is well-hashed anti-GPL stuff. A few web searches shou
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by RobGR 18y ago
This site reminds me of Timothy Ferris and that 4 Hour Work Week book.

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