Re:As much as I hate to suggest this...
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Many ISPs have done this in the past (Think: BlasterWorm). ISPs that I KNOW have done this in the past include SBC (aka. Pacific Bell, Yahoo), Verizon and Comcast (aka. Roadrunner in some areas, now)
I've also seen Yahoo blacklist SMTP server access for people on their own network from sending emails. They'll do this if they determine the origin IP is abusing their mail service, be it a can of SPAM or a can of worms. I imagine if these ISPs are willing to employ such a tactic, disabling your account wouldn't be too far of a stretch from blocking your outgoing mail access.
This certainly doesn't rule out the webmail variable, but when it comes to receiving email from a 'zombie' computer - webmail is quite a bit safer than pop mail clients.
All of this made me think - Being shoved out into space would certainly cause a rush of adrenaline. I wonder how much of an affect this would have on consciousness and the temporary human ability to cope with space-like conditions.
A 'true' Bostonian will have an accent, as well as a 'true' New Yorker or even a 'true' Mississippian.
If you don't, then you've obviously grown up elsewhere and/or the past couple generations of your family have not grown up there and/or you've grown up around others who have not grown up there.
The local dialect is what it is and when you're raised in area only to be exposed to that particular dialect, you too, will speak that way. If you don't, its because of exposure to other dialects that did not originate from that area.
With communication being as it is now, I think accents (or even complete dialects) are being homogenized across the U.S because of television and other 'national' media types. Fewer and fewer people will be speaking locale-specific dialect in the years to come until we all speak like they do in Nebraska.
But - for the most part - if you've been an Ohionian all your life and so has your family and closest friends, you're going to speak like you're from Ohio. That's just the way it is (for now).
You're right - there's no good reason - except the very small percentage of home users who actually KNOW OF Open Office let alone have the balls to download and install it.
I imagine a national television ad here in the U.S would really change things. Imagine well-done commercial that touts, "The compatibility and familiarity of MS Office - but for free!"... I do believe things would shift; however, this is where being free shows its disadvantage because such commercials are very expensive. I think it would be interesting if OO or a representative for OO started a fund based on donations to put towards advertising.
Firefox makes a good example of what an incredible difference being in the spotlight makes. Do a search on Google and 'firefox' brings up 180,000,000 results - do a search on "Open Office" and you get a 'paltry' 2,360,000 results. Granted, Firefox hasn't had a television ad that I know of, but the program has generated a whole of lot buzz. I don't see OO generating that kind of buzz, unfortunately.:(
You might think adware laden office products are a good reason for huge OEMs like Dell to switch to OO by default, but then that of course cuts into their MS Office earnings and virtually no company with 'slim margins' wants to sacrifice that kind of mulah for the 'good of open-source software'.
Your point was well made, but the site responsible (ecoIron.blogspot.com) for suggesting that Google 'go black' does not use white/bright colors. So this renders your assumption inapplicable, although I your point was good.
The site responsible for this also has way, far, far, far, far fewer visitors than Google. Even if it did use white, none of the sites in this article come close to Google in visitors and time spent, I'm sure.
After hearing about the report on AM radio from a couple of different channels, it seems to work both ways - both overweight and thin friends can influence your weight. The results were fairly even between 'overweight' and 'thin' friend groups.
Supposedly, the increase of your chances of gaining or losing weight according to the weight of your friends is approximately 30-50%, depending on your relation with them.
It's also interesting to note that there are '3 degrees of separation', where your friend's friends and even their family can also influence your weight... This even includes long-distance relationships with people, which the study claims to suggest that this is may be a result of similar 'ideas' than directly tied to adoption of eating habits.
I'll have no problems installing and/or running OS X applications such as Firefox, Entourage, Word, Dreamweaver, SuperDuper! etc...? That's great!...
I get your point, but just because Darwin runs on a hybrid BSD / Mach kernel doesn't make it OS X.
This isn't too far off from claiming Windows Mobile 6 is Windows Vista or Mobile 5 is XP, which they clearly are not. Granted, OS X is much closer to the iPhone OS, but they are two different animals and shouldn't be confused with each other. It's not even a 'watered' down version - it is entirely different both graphically and functionally and it should be treated as such.
Advertising.
Google has been generating (very roughly) around $2,500,000,000+ in revenue each quarter and clears well over a 500,000,000.
Most of this is generated through ads. Their Ad-sense program accounts for nearly half of all profit made by Google. The rest is 'site' revenues, which could be any number of things, but I'm sure ads play an important role here as well.
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Many ISPs have done this in the past (Think: BlasterWorm). ISPs that I KNOW have done this in the past include SBC (aka. Pacific Bell, Yahoo), Verizon and Comcast (aka. Roadrunner in some areas, now)
I've also seen Yahoo blacklist SMTP server access for people on their own network from sending emails. They'll do this if they determine the origin IP is abusing their mail service, be it a can of SPAM or a can of worms. I imagine if these ISPs are willing to employ such a tactic, disabling your account wouldn't be too far of a stretch from blocking your outgoing mail access.
This certainly doesn't rule out the webmail variable, but when it comes to receiving email from a 'zombie' computer - webmail is quite a bit safer than pop mail clients.
Compressing my EXEs with RAR files works for me. :)
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All of this made me think - Being shoved out into space would certainly cause a rush of adrenaline. I wonder how much of an affect this would have on consciousness and the temporary human ability to cope with space-like conditions.
A 'true' Bostonian will have an accent, as well as a 'true' New Yorker or even a 'true' Mississippian.
If you don't, then you've obviously grown up elsewhere and/or the past couple generations of your family have not grown up there and/or you've grown up around others who have not grown up there.
The local dialect is what it is and when you're raised in area only to be exposed to that particular dialect, you too, will speak that way. If you don't, its because of exposure to other dialects that did not originate from that area.
With communication being as it is now, I think accents (or even complete dialects) are being homogenized across the U.S because of television and other 'national' media types. Fewer and fewer people will be speaking locale-specific dialect in the years to come until we all speak like they do in Nebraska.
But - for the most part - if you've been an Ohionian all your life and so has your family and closest friends, you're going to speak like you're from Ohio. That's just the way it is (for now).
"I don't think you watch our news. We make a big deal out of both sides dying."
You apparently don't watch Fox News...
You're right - there's no good reason - except the very small percentage of home users who actually KNOW OF Open Office let alone have the balls to download and install it.
:(
I imagine a national television ad here in the U.S would really change things. Imagine well-done commercial that touts, "The compatibility and familiarity of MS Office - but for free!"... I do believe things would shift; however, this is where being free shows its disadvantage because such commercials are very expensive. I think it would be interesting if OO or a representative for OO started a fund based on donations to put towards advertising.
Firefox makes a good example of what an incredible difference being in the spotlight makes. Do a search on Google and 'firefox' brings up 180,000,000 results - do a search on "Open Office" and you get a 'paltry' 2,360,000 results. Granted, Firefox hasn't had a television ad that I know of, but the program has generated a whole of lot buzz. I don't see OO generating that kind of buzz, unfortunately.
You might think adware laden office products are a good reason for huge OEMs like Dell to switch to OO by default, but then that of course cuts into their MS Office earnings and virtually no company with 'slim margins' wants to sacrifice that kind of mulah for the 'good of open-source software'.
Just thinkin' out loud...
Internet Explorer... Duh!
No kiddings guys... I think Leonard Nimoy might really be Vulcan...
It's the only logical explanation for being around for 150 years.
After hearing about the report on AM radio from a couple of different channels, it seems to work both ways - both overweight and thin friends can influence your weight. The results were fairly even between 'overweight' and 'thin' friend groups.
Supposedly, the increase of your chances of gaining or losing weight according to the weight of your friends is approximately 30-50%, depending on your relation with them.
It's also interesting to note that there are '3 degrees of separation', where your friend's friends and even their family can also influence your weight... This even includes long-distance relationships with people, which the study claims to suggest that this is may be a result of similar 'ideas' than directly tied to adoption of eating habits.
I'll have no problems installing and/or running OS X applications such as Firefox, Entourage, Word, Dreamweaver, SuperDuper! etc...? That's great!...
I get your point, but just because Darwin runs on a hybrid BSD / Mach kernel doesn't make it OS X.
This isn't too far off from claiming Windows Mobile 6 is Windows Vista or Mobile 5 is XP, which they clearly are not. Granted, OS X is much closer to the iPhone OS, but they are two different animals and shouldn't be confused with each other. It's not even a 'watered' down version - it is entirely different both graphically and functionally and it should be treated as such.
Advertising. Google has been generating (very roughly) around $2,500,000,000+ in revenue each quarter and clears well over a 500,000,000. Most of this is generated through ads. Their Ad-sense program accounts for nearly half of all profit made by Google. The rest is 'site' revenues, which could be any number of things, but I'm sure ads play an important role here as well.
The iPhone does not run any variant of OS X... http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/13/ 1746234