The manager responsible for this piece of Internet Explorer was overbudget and entrusted its development to a college co-op with Visual Basic experience.
She bailed out AFTER losing her job. Duh. As a WORKING professional I cannot do without broadband.
I am an AT&T Broadband customer and am very satisified. Very little down time (much less than PacBell/GTE/Verizon DSL I've experienced). Fast connections. Good tech support (once you get past the 1000th level of voice prompts from the I-wanted-to-be-a-Top-40s-announcer male voice).
Even for a wireless I prefer broadband. Love that Richochet - want it back.
With an investment overhead of $8.5million versus $1 Billion, this shouldn't be too difficult. Heck, at $80 per month, 51,000 subscribers recoup that outlay in 2 months!
I do hope they advertise. I had no idea that Richochet was in my area until stumbling upon Earthlink's site and seeing the option for wireless broadband. I bought in the same day. So did my employer (offered to pay for my service, and to get it himself), and my main client (for use in 50 to 100 sales reps travelling in the 14 markets Ricochet offered service. Before committing to the deal, the "dark" announcement was made. With a *little* attention to marketing this should be a cinch.
As an aside, I was tempted to drive in the carpool lane and day-dreamt about telling the cop that I was hosting multiple users on my computer (I used my Richochet-equipped laptop as a backup server for development and had a couple people banging away at my mod_perl stuff running under Apache on Win32) and, thus, was "pooling" while in my car.
Ricochet was great if you stayed put, but in a moving vehicle it had great trouble microcell-hopping
First, why are you driving (most do) and using an Internet connection?
Second, that's not my experience. I, a driver and a Ricochet user, drove 80 MPH down I-5 (between the 91 and the 405) often maintaining a constant AOL AIM chat session and an ssh telnet connection to my server(s). I also did this on PCH between the 55 and Long Beach (though only at 60 MPH). There was no trouble "hopping" -- AIM and TeraTermPro w/ SSH don't handle drop packets well at ALL.
Will stand the test of time as "the classic 'missed it completely' book".
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Yet the Cambodian people are amazing! I could not imagine how it happend.
Remember the WTO thing you thought was cool? The same, exact philosophy behind the anti-WTO/pro-isolationist ideology (in the vein of Marx, Lenin, Mao, etc.) was adopted by Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodia) followers. The operative philosophy was anything western or educated went against the agrarian ideal...the solution being killing anyone who was educated, spoke English/French, were artists, etc. This was to purge Cambodia and return it to the farming ideal. Millions died, a generation lives without any real sense of cultural identity. Not cool.
And, I'm not kidding that it's tied to the most radical WTO rioters.
Religious fundamentalists may be on the hot seat these days, but political fundamentalists are just as capable of extremism.
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Neat. However, when the WTO thing went down I thought, "Kooks" not "cool". And wife is Cambodian -- grew up in pre-Communist Cambodia and was sent to the child-slace labor camps from 8 to 10 years of age, lost her dad, climbed over the mountains to Thailand and made it over here a few years later. I think the LEAST problem over there is whether or not their is a (indigenously owned and licensed) Coca-Cola stand.
Oh, when I said, "Who else?" I was thinking about who among Timothy, CmdrTaco, Roblimo, Cliff, Michael...
I scrolled down the page, and, because the way I had my browser set, all I saw was "Globalization". I didn't need to see "Features:" or the by_line to know this was a Katz story.
I don't mind Katz. I don't hate his stories. Sometimes I read them and ponder them.
But there is no doubt (at all) that his stories run perpendicular to the rest of Slashdot. The usual Slashdot story is a reaction to and an invitation seeking the readers reaction to some product, policy, or controversy. There are other things, too, but mainly this is a "hey, there's a story over <a href=....>here</a> so make comments".
Katz, though, creates a controversy or discussion point himself. That's very different. Actually, that requires a little extra. His stories aren't pointers -- they're the base.
Anyway, who else would write a story about Globalization?
If I were a GPL lover, I would get tainted with Curl.
You've got to be a troll. Anyone who's been around *NIX for 2 months or longer knows the difference between cURL and Curl. The fact that the context is either using "curl" or "wget" makes this incredibly clear.
Things like this could help eliminate the anecdotal-only nature of many of hardware complaints
By definition this kind of database will only intensify the ancedotal nature of many hardware complaints, because such a database is merely the collection of ancedotes! Not to say it wouldn't be helpful, but it does nothing to add a scientific sampling of error rates. It will give a "feel" for particular hardware...so I'll probably use it (I'm not a scientist).
While it's trivial for me to circumvent user agent restrictions using Konqueror, wget, etc, it isn't trivial to, say, my mother. If Moz, Opera, NS want to be mainstream, they've got to be able to either switch into stealth mode easily or, better, detect such obscenities and trick the server without intervention.
Sorry, I don't have time to code this for Mozilla... But if MS is going to play hardball and alienate competitors customers....
Jeremi - Don't wonder too much. The Internet is not TV or the movies. Sure, MSNBC, AOLTIMEWARNERCNN, DISNEYABC, and the ilk may rate themselves. But don't expect f---edcompany.com [f---edcompany.com] or stileproject.com [stileproject.com] to sign up. So, what good is a rating system?
I, too, considered Alta Vista the best search engine until, when was that?, summer of 1999 when a friend pointed me to Google.
Google was so vastly superior that I quickly stopped using anything else except Northern Light for special searches.
I recall the graphical search aid AltaVista experimented with -- which was pretty useful once I learned the tricks. It was necessary to sort through the false hits generated by the "keyword" matching algorithm. Google, however, didn't need such a trick since it used the power of the Internet as its relevancy filter. Now, I'm so used to finding exactly what I want I can't imagine using a different method.
Here's the lesson: better service, better value beats "loyalty" and "branding" with discerning customers.
Fine. Read this and tell me that people aren't being prohibited from flying for weak reasons. http://www.citypaper.net/articles/101801/news.godf rey.shtml
Thanks for proving my point. Fight THIS, not searching someone backpack.
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Such intelligence could not be admissible in court, but it just might stop the next attack.
There is no forfeiture of rights here.
The manager responsible for this piece of Internet Explorer was overbudget and entrusted its development to a college co-op with Visual Basic experience.
It's all so clear now...
And as the days go I'm glad you all voted for him instead of the fat, now-beared guy, too. Really.
But, then again, I'm just a developer...
I think I'll still with KDE....
I am an AT&T Broadband customer and am very satisified. Very little down time (much less than PacBell/GTE/Verizon DSL I've experienced). Fast connections. Good tech support (once you get past the 1000th level of voice prompts from the I-wanted-to-be-a-Top-40s-announcer male voice).
Even for a wireless I prefer broadband. Love that Richochet - want it back.
With an investment overhead of $8.5million versus $1 Billion, this shouldn't be too difficult. Heck, at $80 per month, 51,000 subscribers recoup that outlay in 2 months!
I do hope they advertise. I had no idea that Richochet was in my area until stumbling upon Earthlink's site and seeing the option for wireless broadband. I bought in the same day. So did my employer (offered to pay for my service, and to get it himself), and my main client (for use in 50 to 100 sales reps travelling in the 14 markets Ricochet offered service. Before committing to the deal, the "dark" announcement was made. With a *little* attention to marketing this should be a cinch.
Never did it. No guts, not nuts.
First, why are you driving (most do) and using an Internet connection?
Second, that's not my experience. I, a driver and a Ricochet user, drove 80 MPH down I-5 (between the 91 and the 405) often maintaining a constant AOL AIM chat session and an ssh telnet connection to my server(s). I also did this on PCH between the 55 and Long Beach (though only at 60 MPH). There was no trouble "hopping" -- AIM and TeraTermPro w/ SSH don't handle drop packets well at ALL.
Don't try that at home, kiddies.
Will stand the test of time as "the classic 'missed it completely' book".
Remember the WTO thing you thought was cool? The same, exact philosophy behind the anti-WTO/pro-isolationist ideology (in the vein of Marx, Lenin, Mao, etc.) was adopted by Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodia) followers. The operative philosophy was anything western or educated went against the agrarian ideal...the solution being killing anyone who was educated, spoke English/French, were artists, etc. This was to purge Cambodia and return it to the farming ideal. Millions died, a generation lives without any real sense of cultural identity. Not cool.
And, I'm not kidding that it's tied to the most radical WTO rioters.
Religious fundamentalists may be on the hot seat these days, but political fundamentalists are just as capable of extremism.
Oh, when I said, "Who else?" I was thinking about who among Timothy, CmdrTaco, Roblimo, Cliff, Michael...
I don't mind Katz. I don't hate his stories. Sometimes I read them and ponder them.
But there is no doubt (at all) that his stories run perpendicular to the rest of Slashdot. The usual Slashdot story is a reaction to and an invitation seeking the readers reaction to some product, policy, or controversy. There are other things, too, but mainly this is a "hey, there's a story over <a href=....>here</a> so make comments".
Katz, though, creates a controversy or discussion point himself. That's very different. Actually, that requires a little extra. His stories aren't pointers -- they're the base.
Anyway, who else would write a story about Globalization?
You've got to be a troll. Anyone who's been around *NIX for 2 months or longer knows the difference between cURL and Curl. The fact that the context is either using "curl" or "wget" makes this incredibly clear.
Interesting point - why not just do this with Perl/Tk (for the interface) and Perl on the server?
OK -- AMD has my vote for no other reason than using my current "heads-down" development soundtrack: the Matrix.
I love knee-jerks and their reactions.
Any good hacker knows the way into secure systems is through the weakest link: humans.
So, of course the US Gov't spent the past 10+ years evisserating the hum-int in favor of carnivore-type el-int. No wonder we didn't have a clue.
I love my Moz, but know unfortunate juxtapositions when I see them...
By definition this kind of database will only intensify the ancedotal nature of many hardware complaints, because such a database is merely the collection of ancedotes! Not to say it wouldn't be helpful, but it does nothing to add a scientific sampling of error rates. It will give a "feel" for particular hardware...so I'll probably use it (I'm not a scientist).
Sorry, I don't have time to code this for Mozilla... But if MS is going to play hardball and alienate competitors customers....
Jeremi - Don't wonder too much. The Internet is not TV or the movies. Sure, MSNBC, AOLTIMEWARNERCNN, DISNEYABC, and the ilk may rate themselves. But don't expect f---edcompany.com [f---edcompany.com] or stileproject.com [stileproject.com] to sign up. So, what good is a rating system?
Google was so vastly superior that I quickly stopped using anything else except Northern Light for special searches.
I recall the graphical search aid AltaVista experimented with -- which was pretty useful once I learned the tricks. It was necessary to sort through the false hits generated by the "keyword" matching algorithm. Google, however, didn't need such a trick since it used the power of the Internet as its relevancy filter. Now, I'm so used to finding exactly what I want I can't imagine using a different method.
Here's the lesson: better service, better value beats "loyalty" and "branding" with discerning customers.
Thanks for proving my point. Fight THIS, not searching someone backpack.