The point of SMS is that its a good way to leave a message without having to frig around with voicemail. Here in oz we pay about 20c to send a message and nothing to receive it, so it's cheap enough, but no-one's going to sent 10,000 spam texts for a 0.1% return at 20c a go! Hence NO SPAM. That's my point.
If nobody ever replied to spam, there'd be no point to it, so maybe it would dry up eventually. People who react to spam are providing the feedback that encourages the spammers to spam on.
I'm not a US citizen, but... Your constitution (A1S8) states...
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Why PPPoE? With DSL over phone line, shouldn't you have been using PPPoA (ATM)? My DSL modem has PPPoE
as the default, but I don't understand why. Surely the physical connection is not Ethernet, it's ATM.
Anyhow, although PPPoE works, sort of, after I switched to PPPoA, I'm getting far better reliability and it connects instantly, rather than negotiating for 15 seconds. I'm still unsure of why PPPoE even works at all!
How right you are. I'm glad they don't complain to the same degree about DUPLICATE COMMENTS cos this thread is just about 99% whinging. Pretty Piss Poor Performance. (I'm sorry, this is a bit of a whine also, but at least it has a different target:-)
My 13yo has had XP for most of a year now, downloading all sorts of scary.exe's. No crashes so far, no reloads, just working fine. I was expecting to have to rebuild every couple of weeks, but that's not the way it's happened.
XP looks pretty solid to me. Pretty expensive too.
That is the first on topic post so far. Well done. The guy was asking about "how suitable is Linux for your kids", not "if you should let your kids near computers".
Anyhow,... I have 2 decent games boxes for my kids running windows, but I've also provided both vnc and shell (PuTTY) interfaces to my server and I'm encouraging my son (the girls just are NOT interested at this stage) to explore. Little progress so far, but he's at least poked around a bit.
there's magic water in capacitors maybe so! As soon as I get home, I'm going to check both my taiwanese motherboards for bad caps. If there's any sign of leakage, or if the +ive ends are bulging, out they'll come!!!
That is NOT off topic, moderator!! The topic is robots, ain't it? Danger Danger Will Robinson is a robot quote so your offtopic moderation is out of line
I hope the connectors are keyed properly. It looks like a pin is offset, so that's good. I always hated when the key block is missing or shaved off the old IDE cable and you had to figure (guess) which way round it goes. This new system looks good. Bring it on.
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oh dear, all this sms talk, Im starting to write in sms speak!
The point of SMS is that its a good way to leave a message without having to frig around with voicemail. Here in oz we pay about 20c to send a message and nothing to receive it, so it's cheap enough, but no-one's going to sent 10,000 spam texts for a 0.1% return at 20c a go! Hence NO SPAM. That's my point.
As long as the sender pays, there will be little or no spam. That's pretty easy. US telcos - over to you.
If nobody ever replied to spam, there'd be no point to it, so maybe it would dry up eventually. People who react to spam are providing the feedback that encourages the spammers to spam on.
I run a samba filesystem for the windows hungry masses in my household, and it would be nice to be able to scan files in and out of the file system.
By allowing an ongoing extention framework, the period becomes "unlimited". That is unconstitutional (Article 1 Section 8)
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
"Limited times" - Isn't that binding?
Oh gosh these guys are clever. First one-click shopping, now two-click shopping. What next?
Why PPPoE? With DSL over phone line, shouldn't you have been using PPPoA (ATM)? My DSL modem has PPPoE as the default, but I don't understand why. Surely the physical connection is not Ethernet, it's ATM.
Anyhow, although PPPoE works, sort of, after I switched to PPPoA, I'm getting far better reliability and it connects instantly, rather than negotiating for 15 seconds. I'm still unsure of why PPPoE even works at all!
How right you are. I'm glad they don't complain to the same degree about DUPLICATE COMMENTS cos this thread is just about 99% whinging. Pretty Piss Poor Performance. (I'm sorry, this is a bit of a whine also, but at least it has a different target :-)
FERMAT STRIKES AGAIN (Moderators: please note the PP has *quoted* Fermat's margin note from where he postulates his last theorum)
My 13yo has had XP for most of a year now, downloading all sorts of scary .exe's. No crashes so far, no reloads, just working fine. I was expecting to have to rebuild every couple of weeks, but that's not the way it's happened.
XP looks pretty solid to me. Pretty expensive too.
Anyhow,... I have 2 decent games boxes for my kids running windows, but I've also provided both vnc and shell (PuTTY) interfaces to my server and I'm encouraging my son (the girls just are NOT interested at this stage) to explore. Little progress so far, but he's at least poked around a bit.
Cheep cheep! goes the newly hatched chick
Cheap cheap! goes the Hong Kong shopkeeper
There are no degrees of pedanticism.
Adobe refused to play ball with MS. They must therefore be destroyed.
Thanks for the warning, whoever.
Do you mean armored lair of evil?
The Villaneuva letter is nothing short of awesome. Please read it.
Yes, but today is not the 100th anniversary of THAT cable. OK.
Don't expect me to check your claim.
That is NOT off topic, moderator!! The topic is robots, ain't it? Danger Danger Will Robinson is a robot quote so your offtopic moderation is out of line
I've heard of "My Generation" [the Who, circa early 70s] but what exactly is our generation
AFAIK /.ters cover quite a broad age range. There might be people even as old as 30 reading ;-)
He's saying the reason eBay are overreacting is that they'd rather do that than face RIAA. It's a fair comment surely.
Oh yeah, and I hope this will lead to a STANDARD for removeable drive cannisters too!
I hope the connectors are keyed properly. It looks like a pin is offset, so that's good. I always hated when the key block is missing or shaved off the old IDE cable and you had to figure (guess) which way round it goes. This new system looks good. Bring it on.