The company you are dealing with (the broker), probably outsources its email list to some other company. That other company may be shady/aggressive, or it may be offshore, or some of its employees may pilfer the email addresses and sell them to spammers.
David Farber explains that from a chemistry point of view, it is almost impossible. He also lists some solid stuff that can be used. I list where this progression will lead...
Yes, the advent of Gmail, and Google Maps changed the landscape. It proved that using XmlHttpRequest and Javascript is a practical and cross browser way for rich applications.
XUL would have been better since the front end is not as "active" as Javascript.
There is something called XULRunner that is supposed to be a standalone application for XUL front ends, and not tied to a browser.
Hotmail has become worse in the past few weeks, with several every day. This does not sound much, but I don't use my Hotmail account for email at all. Only when someone on my MSN Messenger thinks that I do that I get the occasional message.
Yahoo lets one or two thru every week.
Gmail has slipped a few over the past weeks too, but less than Yahoo.
I have had a stream of mistaken identity emails on my web site. They range from mistaking my site for the Library of Alexandria, to Sears Kenmore Water softeners and heaters, to an English school admissions department, to a hotel in Cairo, and more...
I installed it under Windows XP, on a Pentium 4 HT 3.0 Ghz, 1 GB machine. It did not ask for a reboot (good thing).
Then just for fun, I installed Kubuntu 6.06 in it. It works, but you feel it is slow. So, it would not be something that I would run regularly.
I was hoping to run VMWare on Linux, and having Windows inside a VM for testing stuff. Not sure if Voice applications (e.g. Yahoo Messenger, MSN,...etc.) would work on a virtualized Windows machine inside Linux or not. This is my next test.
This already happens, just give it some isolation, and a mix of two languages, and things start to get phonetic quickly.
For example, the Pitkern and Norfuk languages are Pidgins of English and Tahitian. Notice how the language name itself is phonetic rather than Pitcairn and Norfolk.
The same is true elsewhere, for example Computer is "Komputa" in Kiswahili because of the way the word is pronounced.
Now, in English speaking countries, this will not happen, since there is no pidgin influence, and no isolation.
Implementing this idea would also mean that people would soon lose the ability to read the vast body of works already written in English;
Like what happened in Turkey in the 1920s. The old Arabic derived Osmanli script was deprecated by law, and a new script using Latin like characters was developed. The result is that the generations since have lost the ability to read centuries old worth of poetry and history...
The West does indeed prefer dictators. But it is a more complex picture:
- Captial Is Cowardly (TM), and prefers stability. If a country is seen as stable, then investment captial will flow. India has been seen as being stable due to democracy and economic reforms in the past 10-15 years.
- Foreign Policy Prefers Dictators. They do not have to go back to the people to ask for permission, and are better peons in the geopolitical game. They are also disposable. Examples abound: from previous villains like Saddam (vs. Iran), Noriega (Panama), Qaddafi of Libya (now docile), and many others.
So, if you look at Pakistan and India, the USA is happy to outsource to India (cheap, economically stable, skilled labor), but when the time comes to invade Afghanistan, Pakistan is key because it is run by a dictator who needed US support. A similar picture emerged by Turkey's refusal to use its borders with Iraq, but the American base is in Qatar, and Kuwait (although Kuwait had an axe to grind against Saddam due to him invading them in 1990).
I do wonder why a woman asserting her independence by refusing to take her husband's name when getting married feels perfectly comfortable carrying her father's name. According to the Wikipedia article, the practice is generally in decline, but for those of us old enough to remember the shrill "I'm no one's property" arguments before the notion became politically correct and commonplace, the irony lingers. Even funnier if you've been through divorce court.
While this is an interesting observation, it only applies to current Western norms, and more precisely Anglo-Saxon derived ones.
In many places around the world, a woman keeps her name throughout her life, regardless of who she marries or divorces.
This is the norm in the Middle East, where -- interestingly -- changing the name upon marriage in the English-speaking Western countries is seen as a form of woman being "chattel" or property... go figure...
The A8V-MX does not have a Promise chipset, only the VIA. I think the A8V Deluxe has them.
The older VIA chipset works fine (as in my new A8V), it is just the newer one that are unrecognized. There is a patch in the queue already for it, but when you need a disk to install to so you can patch the kernel so you can see the disk, it becomes tricky.
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Come on guys, cut him some slack.
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Mark Hurd clearly said that he takes full accountability to drive the actions to set it right .
Carefully chosen words
The company you are dealing with (the broker), probably outsources its email list to some other company. That other company may be shady/aggressive, or it may be offshore, or some of its employees may pilfer the email addresses and sell them to spammers.
That could be all there is.
I remember working with fixed hard drives (i.e. non-removable) that were 500 MB, and larger than washing machines.
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I remember having colleagues who broke their feet after removable hard drives fell on them (those were only 200 MB, but HUGE
The same place I worked at had XT like PCs with external hard drives in shoe box sized housing.
Those were from the mid-80s by the way
Seconded.
This is the single most effective way of getting market share.
David Farber explains that from a chemistry point of view, it is almost impossible. He also lists some solid stuff that can be used. I list where this progression will lead ...
More on liquid explosives on an airplane.
You obviously never coded COBOL on an 80 column sheet, in pencil ...
Gmail happened.
Yes, the advent of Gmail, and Google Maps changed the landscape. It proved that using XmlHttpRequest and Javascript is a practical and cross browser way for rich applications.
XUL would have been better since the front end is not as "active" as Javascript.
There is something called XULRunner that is supposed to be a standalone application for XUL front ends, and not tied to a browser.
No, not a passport checkpoint.
Rather a restaurant.
I get some of that 419 scam, and although Yahoo catches all spam, it is the 419 ones that get through somehow.
Agreed.
Hotmail has become worse in the past few weeks, with several every day. This does not sound much, but I don't use my Hotmail account for email at all. Only when someone on my MSN Messenger thinks that I do that I get the occasional message.
Yahoo lets one or two thru every week.
Gmail has slipped a few over the past weeks too, but less than Yahoo.
We had our Census 2006 a few months ago online ...
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Of course, paper still works today, one can't assume EVERYONE has internet access or want to use it
Beat ya to it aussies
In your case, it could be a simple misconfiguraton.
.com you will end up with what you describe.
They may have been typing jdoe@watson, and the assumption is that the TLD will be appended, so they end up with jdoe@watson.ibm.com.
If their email/DNS is misconfigured, and appends just
I have had a stream of mistaken identity emails on my web site. They range from mistaking my site for the Library of Alexandria, to Sears Kenmore Water softeners and heaters, to an English school admissions department, to a hotel in Cairo, and more ...
I wonder if Mark Shuttleworth (Thawte, Ubuntu, ...etc.) will go up one more time just for the space walk.
From what he said, being in space was something he always dreamed about.
This should work, until you lose the detector.
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But wait, you can have an RFID on the detector, and get a detector's detector.
That can be lost too, so you get a Detector's detector detector
Hmm
I tested VMWare Server a few days ago.
...etc.) would work on a virtualized Windows machine inside Linux or not. This is my next test.
I installed it under Windows XP, on a Pentium 4 HT 3.0 Ghz, 1 GB machine. It did not ask for a reboot (good thing).
Then just for fun, I installed Kubuntu 6.06 in it. It works, but you feel it is slow. So, it would not be something that I would run regularly.
I was hoping to run VMWare on Linux, and having Windows inside a VM for testing stuff. Not sure if Voice applications (e.g. Yahoo Messenger, MSN,
This already happens, just give it some isolation, and a mix of two languages, and things start to get phonetic quickly.
For example, the Pitkern and Norfuk languages are Pidgins of English and Tahitian. Notice how the language name itself is phonetic rather than Pitcairn and Norfolk.
The same is true elsewhere, for example Computer is "Komputa" in Kiswahili because of the way the word is pronounced.
Now, in English speaking countries, this will not happen, since there is no pidgin influence, and no isolation.
Like what happened in Turkey in the 1920s. The old Arabic derived Osmanli script was deprecated by law, and a new script using Latin like characters was developed. The result is that the generations since have lost the ability to read centuries old worth of poetry and history
Perhaps intentional by Kemal Ataturk et. al.
The title of your post caught my attention.
The West does indeed prefer dictators. But it is a more complex picture:
- Captial Is Cowardly (TM), and prefers stability. If a country is seen as stable, then investment captial will flow. India has been seen as being stable due to democracy and economic reforms in the past 10-15 years.
- Foreign Policy Prefers Dictators. They do not have to go back to the people to ask for permission, and are better peons in the geopolitical game. They are also disposable. Examples abound: from previous villains like Saddam (vs. Iran), Noriega (Panama), Qaddafi of Libya (now docile), and many others.
So, if you look at Pakistan and India, the USA is happy to outsource to India (cheap, economically stable, skilled labor), but when the time comes to invade Afghanistan, Pakistan is key because it is run by a dictator who needed US support. A similar picture emerged by Turkey's refusal to use its borders with Iraq, but the American base is in Qatar, and Kuwait (although Kuwait had an axe to grind against Saddam due to him invading them in 1990).
While this is an interesting observation, it only applies to current Western norms, and more precisely Anglo-Saxon derived ones.
In many places around the world, a woman keeps her name throughout her life, regardless of who she marries or divorces.
This is the norm in the Middle East, where -- interestingly -- changing the name upon marriage in the English-speaking Western countries is seen as a form of woman being "chattel" or property
Details and links are on my web site, since people are asking me about it.
Thank you for the details.
I think I tried this before exchanging the motherboard, and it did not work.
Regards
The A8V-MX does not have a Promise chipset, only the VIA. I think the A8V Deluxe has them.
The older VIA chipset works fine (as in my new A8V), it is just the newer one that are unrecognized. There is a patch in the queue already for it, but when you need a disk to install to so you can patch the kernel so you can see the disk, it becomes tricky.
Can you explain that in more detail?
Is this the A8V-MX, or another motherboard?
Not an option if you want to go with a cheaper, more power efficient and quieter, 64-bit processor.
I agree that the Intel mobos are nice though. They work flawlessly with Linux too. My wife's PC has an Intel motherboard.
What I do not like is the heat and power consumption for the Intel P4. AMD has the edge in this area hands down.