I think one of the reasons geek toys don't appeal to the regular ol' consumer is because they'd have to carry this "thing" around, something probably does no more than act as a calendar or a phone book to most of them - easily replaced with pen and paper. Maybe making them wearable will make them less of a hassle, though.
There's a cost borne on the recipient you're not considering - waste storage and removal. Not to mention the time spent sorting through it to get the real mail, and the time spent sorting it for recycling. And then, if you don't recycle, there's the environmental cost as well. (Not all junk mail is glossy.)
By the way, junk mail can also cause "bounces". I live in an apartment complex and those mailboxes are not very big. If I did not check it 2 days in a row, it would be completely full of junk, causing the mailman to hold my mail at their facility until it is emptied.
"Are you going to run out and buy the latest greatest $80 copy of redhat when you can pop over to linuxiso.org and just burn a copy??? We're talking $2.00 for the three CD set"
The only reason $80 sounds like a lot for that copy of Red Hat is because the TRUE cost of your Internet connection is masked. It sure doesn't cost your ISP $2.00 for you to download 1800MB (and I'm not just talking about bandwidth costs here folks! There's a lot more to a large business than just pipe.)
"because we waited for the day of 2mb/s downloads... and now that the day is here... we consider that a right... a right that we will fight to keep"
Bwah ha ha ha. Well, if the broadband companies were making money off you, they'd love you for this statement. "We'll fight to stuff money in Company X's officer's pockets!" Unfortunately for you, you're saying "We'll fight to take money from Company X's officer's pockets!" - believe it or not, they don't like that.
which is misleading, irrelevant, and useless to the consumer. You seem to think that it's okay for Intel to effectively make up numbers (by simply boosting MHz til the CPUs aren't reliable enough to sell) and AMD not. I think you may not truly understand where the problem is here.
Maybe it isn't possible for them to make money on accounts that use these P2P-type services. I wonder how (un)popular it would be if they only filtered/capped the ports outside of their network - most* of their cost comes when traffic leaves their network to peers.
*Not all, of course. There's a limited capacity within their network, too.
The film would have been much better if they did not hire well-known voices for the characters. I felt that detracted from the experience. It works in cartoons because cartoons are much more obviously fake, but as they approach realism, they need to use new people for the voices.
Maybe this whole CGI thing will be a good way to get ugly (Hollywood ugly, not real ugly) people into film.:-)
I signed up for Quickbooks's merchant service. It was through some company whose name I forget, and the merchant account was through Wells Fargo. I was signed in to a year contract, and there was a minimum charge, but it was reasonable. I didn't need a storefront. The Quickbooks integration could have been much better, and might be now (this was in '99)
"From what I understand, EFnet is a real mess because they don't use things like ChanServs/nickservs, etc, so stupid script kiddies will try to DDoS servers and users in attempts to take over channels (yes, extremely stupid)"
Not to mention that, at least for a time, many of the opers and admins were kiddies themselves. EFNet is just in bad shape all around. Chanserv/Nickserv would be great, but the mentality would live on somehow.
Dal.net hasn't sucked since I moved there. The best part about it is you can/server irc.dal.net and pretty much get connected every time, whereas with EFNet you have to hunt around for a server because they never figured out how to cooperate.
How much of that 7 billion dollars was in stock? Probably most of it. IOW, if they had that 7 billion dollars now, it wouldn't do them any good at all.
They already monitor clickthroughs for 1% of the users hitting their site each day. Sometimes you'll notice it because the URLs you see when you hover over the links are different.
If its not important enough for taxes to pay to imprison someone, maybe they shouldn't be imprisoned in the first place. But this goes against a previous posters very insightful commentary on the prison system/slave labor camps.
That's an excellent method of blocking thousands of non-Ralsky domains. I mean, you're free to do what you want to do, of course. Just as long as you know it's really, really dumb.:)
Bob Sullivan, I am offended. "The software, known as "Magic Lantern," enables agents to read data that had been scrambled, a tactic often employed by criminals to hide information and evade law enforcement." Nobody I know uses encryption to hide illegal actions. Even the people I've caught doing illegal things don't do this.
Also in case it gets/.'d, the DVD is not available for purchase yet. I do wish/. would show some restraint before posting things like this. "Hey look, something new that isn't available yet!" Buh.
(Yes, I'll probably get mod'd way down for this but I stand by what I say.)
No press release, no review, nothing but them taking orders. How much did they pay VA/. to post this? I mean, any of us could have found this, gone to their website, and read their marketing literature. Where's the beef?
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I think one of the reasons geek toys don't appeal to the regular ol' consumer is because they'd have to carry this "thing" around, something probably does no more than act as a calendar or a phone book to most of them - easily replaced with pen and paper. Maybe making them wearable will make them less of a hassle, though.
There's a cost borne on the recipient you're not considering - waste storage and removal. Not to mention the time spent sorting through it to get the real mail, and the time spent sorting it for recycling. And then, if you don't recycle, there's the environmental cost as well. (Not all junk mail is glossy.)
By the way, junk mail can also cause "bounces". I live in an apartment complex and those mailboxes are not very big. If I did not check it 2 days in a row, it would be completely full of junk, causing the mailman to hold my mail at their facility until it is emptied.
Which are?
Well, for one, web-based "remote systems administration"* out of the box.
*in as much as Back Orifice is an admin tool.
Any information/links about how the tax deduction stuff works? What is the actual benefit?
"Are you going to run out and buy the latest greatest $80 copy of redhat when you can pop over to linuxiso.org and just burn a copy??? We're talking $2.00 for the three CD set"
... and now that the day is here ... we consider that a right ... a right that we will fight to keep"
The only reason $80 sounds like a lot for that copy of Red Hat is because the TRUE cost of your Internet connection is masked. It sure doesn't cost your ISP $2.00 for you to download 1800MB (and I'm not just talking about bandwidth costs here folks! There's a lot more to a large business than just pipe.)
"because we waited for the day of 2mb/s downloads
Bwah ha ha ha. Well, if the broadband companies were making money off you, they'd love you for this statement. "We'll fight to stuff money in Company X's officer's pockets!" Unfortunately for you, you're saying "We'll fight to take money from Company X's officer's pockets!" - believe it or not, they don't like that.
"MHz is an actual, real, solid hard fact."
which is misleading, irrelevant, and useless to the consumer. You seem to think that it's okay for Intel to effectively make up numbers (by simply boosting MHz til the CPUs aren't reliable enough to sell) and AMD not. I think you may not truly understand where the problem is here.
(Yeah, I'm even further offtopic :)
"I don't buy AMD because they mislead consumers with their fake but MHz looking "ratings""
That's amusing, because the MHz ratings on Intel processors are highly misleading. Which would you rather have?
Maybe it isn't possible for them to make money on accounts that use these P2P-type services. I wonder how (un)popular it would be if they only filtered/capped the ports outside of their network - most* of their cost comes when traffic leaves their network to peers.
*Not all, of course. There's a limited capacity within their network, too.
The film would have been much better if they did not hire well-known voices for the characters. I felt that detracted from the experience. It works in cartoons because cartoons are much more obviously fake, but as they approach realism, they need to use new people for the voices.
:-)
Maybe this whole CGI thing will be a good way to get ugly (Hollywood ugly, not real ugly) people into film.
I signed up for Quickbooks's merchant service. It was through some company whose name I forget, and the merchant account was through Wells Fargo. I was signed in to a year contract, and there was a minimum charge, but it was reasonable. I didn't need a storefront. The Quickbooks integration could have been much better, and might be now (this was in '99)
"From what I understand, EFnet is a real mess because they don't use things like ChanServs/nickservs, etc, so stupid script kiddies will try to DDoS servers and users in attempts to take over channels (yes, extremely stupid)"
/server irc.dal.net and pretty much get connected every time, whereas with EFNet you have to hunt around for a server because they never figured out how to cooperate.
Not to mention that, at least for a time, many of the opers and admins were kiddies themselves. EFNet is just in bad shape all around. Chanserv/Nickserv would be great, but the mentality would live on somehow.
Dal.net hasn't sucked since I moved there. The best part about it is you can
How much of that 7 billion dollars was in stock? Probably most of it. IOW, if they had that 7 billion dollars now, it wouldn't do them any good at all.
Congrats to Apple for the success of their annoyware! Three cheers and all that.
The problem with calling it extortion by the bondholders is that AT&T is one of the primary reasons why Excite@Home is in bankruptcy.
They already monitor clickthroughs for 1% of the users hitting their site each day. Sometimes you'll notice it because the URLs you see when you hover over the links are different.
Is it really the government that doesn't allow Penthouse in public libraries? Couldn't it be the library staff/management?
If its not important enough for taxes to pay to imprison someone, maybe they shouldn't be imprisoned in the first place. But this goes against a previous posters very insightful commentary on the prison system/slave labor camps.
That's an excellent method of blocking thousands of non-Ralsky domains. I mean, you're free to do what you want to do, of course. Just as long as you know it's really, really dumb. :)
Bob Sullivan, I am offended. "The software, known as "Magic Lantern," enables agents to read data that had been scrambled, a tactic often employed by criminals to hide information and evade law enforcement." Nobody I know uses encryption to hide illegal actions. Even the people I've caught doing illegal things don't do this.
Sure would be nice if we could mod up past +5, thi s deserves a +10, Funny, Informative, FootInMouth
For the BSD sysadmin in your life, get 'em a BSD Daemon statuette:
http://www.linuxjewellery.com/catalogue.php/bsd/
Some money from the sales also goes towards FreeBSD development, too, which they ought to appreciate!
Also in case it gets /.'d, the DVD is not available for purchase yet. I do wish /. would show some restraint before posting things like this. "Hey look, something new that isn't available yet!" Buh.
http://mobp.museum/
What's next on your plate? May I suggest "Thundercats"?
(Yes, I'll probably get mod'd way down for this but I stand by what I say.)
No press release, no review, nothing but them taking orders. How much did they pay VA/. to post this? I mean, any of us could have found this, gone to their website, and read their marketing literature. Where's the beef?