I now use my own email server for that reason. It still has the occassional problem but it's no where near as often. Unfortunely it's still a pain to reactive Yahoo Groups after one of these issues.
I had my ex-register register kavlon.info (because I own kavlon.com and kavlon.org) and try to blackmail me into buying it from them. They put it in my name but wouldn't give me access to it. I tried finding some legal method to force them to give it to me, or sale it at a fair price, since it's a name that I have trademarked but it didn't do any good. To me, if a domain was paid for by you, registered in your name, or contains your trademark then you should be able to get control of that domain. The whole domain system is kinda based on a shitty system where getting stuff done fairly involves spending a lot of money or spending a lot of time contacting people.
The annoying thing is that sometimes you get banned from groups because your email doesn't go through. An annoying thing if you belong to very many email groups. In light of their own poor uptime you'd think they'd make their groups less picky about mail servers being temporarily busy or down.
I haven't used a Real product since before the year 2000. That's forever in the life of a software product. I certainly won't be using any Real products in the future having heard this statement.
I encourage Linux vendors to not support DRM. If you support DRM, other than in converting it to a non-DRM format, I will not use your products. I've already made it a practice to avoid products that have DRM, that hasn't yet been broken, in them and I'll continue doing the same. As it is I'm already planning to not buy any HD-DVD/Blueray movies, or players, that contain DRM (again, until the DRM is broken).
I agree. The average consumer is looking for games more like Duck Hunt than Halo. Games of Halo's complexity are to much for many child, older people, and most anyone that is just a casual gamer (most of the market). I think Nintendo is smart to be working on building games more oriented to the casual gamer and working on making the experience easier for them by using natural movements rather than having to learn a joystick, keyboard, or mouse.
Duck Hunt was awesome for it's time and a lot of players would like similar games with some more modern touches.
Why shift content off screen when you can just tell it to not display it with your CSS? that's one of those things people do that I can't really see the point of (shifting, not hiding). Is there a benefit to only shifting it?
Be warned that you need to block your stylesheets from being crawled though if you try to hide text from users with CSS because search engines can mistake (or be correct in some cases) that as spamming and kill your search placement because of it.
It's a handy way to put more keywords in pages that users might not want to see. So you can put "Scene [Lifestyle]" and only have the user see the word "Scene" so you are actually helping people find you. Something I do is include common differences in how to write part numbers in that kind of hidden text. On my site the users can search and find stuff by that hidden text but they won't see it because it'd be confussing to them. I go ahead and include it in the page source though so that people searching on Google, Yahoo, etc can also find those pages. Pretty much what the keywords meta tag probably should be used for but isn't since search engine spammers devalued those tags.
My company has both Yahoo and Google ads and the Google ads the past few days have seemed to go a little nuts. Ad groups that previously were getting a couple hundred impressions a day and maybe a couple clicks are getting 70,000 impressions a day and a couple dozen clicks before I pause the groups effected. None of these extra clicks are doing anything on my site really so I'm thinking it may be somebody's click bot gone nuts. The first morning I came in and saw 70,000 impressions I was really saying what the fuck.
Did anyone else read that as breast implants that let the blind see? Until i stopped and comprehended for a second I had some interesting visions flashing through my mind. Get bigger boobs and replace those nipples with transplanted eyeballs! Sounds like a character off some cheap Star Trek knock-off.
I'm sure it can store any kind of data but the compression ratio will vary. If you feed it's own output back into it eventually it'll reach a limit where it can't compress anymore. For any normal kind of file though it's a perfectly reasonable concept. I already save a lot of space with my own little filesystem (FUSE based) that avoids saving duplicate files and compresses files that aren't already compressed. Over a large amount of files that saves an amazing amount of space because many files are duplicate. You'll notice that they are targeting these systems for large data warehouses where a lot of files are duplicates and many files have a lot of redundant data.
So make fun of their marketing, marketing is always full of bullshit, but I wouldn't throw this product out as bullshit without hearing more.
I just sent a note to my favorite, Dr. Frankenstein. I'm encouraging him in his latest project to engineer full body clones with minimalist small mammal brain grown in rather than the original human brain. I really can't wait until I can buy a pet girl that looks like a beautiful but that doesn't expect anything from me other than feeding and a bed to sleep in. Dating will be made so much simpler thanks to genetic science!
Okay.. maybe I'm the only one that sufferes from that strange fantasy.;)
And here I was worried that by 30 I hadn't became a genius yet. Nice to know that with this delay I'm sure to be the worlds biggest supper genius when my time comes! Bwahahaha.
I've wondered why they didn't do this before. It's cool that they finally are. It'll be great when these measure the eye and adjust focus automatically to where you're trying to look and to correct your vision as it changes over time. I imagine the electronics should be pretty easy to scale down as I can't think of any reason why these would be very complicated. Battery life shouldn't be to big a deal. I wonder if they could be kept charged by the user's motion between full recharges.
If more opensource projects would give you a link on their sposnored by page more companies would sponsor them I think. Hell, just posting directions on how to donate helps. The OpenBSD link looks pretty good though - not only do I get to support a project I like but I get a little boost to my own website's link popularity by donating. I'd rather give them the money for the link than some shitty SEO company and their spam site stooges.
They've decided to go back to a known method that worked in the 80's. You get the games printed in books and you have to hand code the hexdecimal in before you can play the game. Of course if you turn off the unit or switch games you'll have to re-enter the game. Since the printed word is compatible with all systems it's sure to be a winner! HD-DVD of course stands for HexDecimal DVD. You'll get the fun of hand entering all the hex before you can watch your movies too. The kids will love all the family time that gives you and for porn it'll be fantastic because you'll develop such strong hands!
Sure opensource is more effecient but that isn't a very powerful motivator. Without an evil empire to drive people into the arms of the opensource rebellion most consumers and developers wouldn't have been very interested. It would have been a technical discussion like pair-programming where only developers were very interested and then not usually to a very passionate level.
True, Microsoft certainly isn't the only company responsible for this. Free software is a tradition that goes back as far as computers go back and especially PCs. Other companies have shown the need for opensource over the years. Microsoft, and the software industry they created, is just the worst offender that has turned a small scale effort into a global war. Lately other industries with similar methods have also gotten involved as the open/free software traditions that existed have bled over into other areas of IP such as music, movies, and publishing. Each new industry that joins the fray is adding fuel to the fire against them. Smarter people would reach a compromise with the consumer before their ivory towers were toppled. Apple I think made a strong effort in the music business to do this but obviously some members of the music industry aren't smart enough to understand why it's good for them to make this compromise so they are screwing up Apple's effort.
But the company most responsible for the IP war taking place is Microsoft. They gave power to the software revolt and that revolt has infected every other area of intellectual property. It's probably good for them that the other IP companies hurt by these changes can't prove all this well enough to sue Microsoft for damages.;)
To some degree I think you're right. In the end it's usually the consumers fault that the consumer gets stuck with shit. There are enough people out there that'll buy whatever they saw the coolest commercial for that it sort of forces companies to ignore quality in favor of marketing. Then you take consumer lock-in which is caused by people being to busy, lazy, and afraid to do something new and the masses end up stuck with a lot of products they aren't really happy with but which they feel they can't change from.
I will argue though that the PC software industry was mostly invented by Bill Gates and it is the way it is because he made it that way. Before Bill we had two ways to buy software really. Either it came from the computer manufacturer or it was available for free from some sort of user-group or publication (opensource pretty much). The PC revolution was largely the gift and curse given to us by Microsoft. All that packaged software available at stores is largely the brain child of Microsoft. Everything about how PC software companies build and sell software is based on what other people saw Microsoft being successful at doing. For a couple decades this way really the only real option consumers had. Switching to Mac might give you different, or even better, programs but it wasn't really a different way of thinking about software. Apple usually does higher-quality products but they are even worse about locking the consumer in.
The first real shift in the PC software market was the shareware craze. When shareware took off it allowed smaller companies to break into the market and allowed consumers more choice in software. For the most part the shareware craze is dead but it was good for the PC industry. As the shareware craze started to run out a new wave of software distribution hit which was a mixture of opensource and free programs that are available for free off the Internet. These programs seriously begun changing the software industry by making software free and attaching advertising, services, etc as the profit center of the market or even just giving away the programs for free. Today almost every PC has at least a few free programs on them and of course the Internet is based on a lot of free programs. From shareware to opensource is the movement in the software industry back towards the roots of software and away from Bill's model. Why is it happening? Largely because Microsoft has made millions of unhappy consumers and alienated many developers so that they don't feel they can compete with Microsoft using Bill's own methods or because they don't like the limitations put on software under Bill's system. Or maybe the developers are unhappy Microsoft consumers too with a grudge and a point to prove.
So yes the consumer is responsible for their own continued bad choices when choices exist but for a long time those choices really didn't exist and now the consumer is locked in and will need to work extra hard to break free. Every bit of software, hardware, documents, and experience they have in the Microsoft world is something they have to work through to break loose of Bill. The only reason so many people are doing all this work to switch is because Microsoft has so clearly shown the contempt they have for their own customers.
Enough energy can probably be sent through the RF to cause the small movements needed. I don't imagine it's a lot of movement. All you'd need to do was swell/shrink the fastener on command to do the job. Or they could maybe do something with magnetic induction or some simple method like that which doesn't require direct contact. Having it only work from a couple inches or less away would help with security anyway.
From what I've studied of Microsoft over the years I'd have to say that if Paul Allen was still the guy in charge I might not be using Linux as my primary OS today. What originally drove me away from Windows and commercial software in general was the attitude that companies had when you had problems with their product. This all stems from the attitudes of the owners of these companies and most of all Bill Gates who is largely the founder and role model of the commercial software industry.
This bad attitude is at the center of the poor customer support, poorly designed and implemented products, and general lack of concern for what effect they're having on their customers and society at large. If Paul Allen had kept the reigns of the PC revolution the entire world could be a very different place now.
By being so extremist in his position Bill Gates created his own worst enemy in the form of free opensource software. It was his influence that created the need for a counter-influence. Someone more centered would never have created such a strong counter-culture.
Apple had a similar experience between Jobs and Woz though so maybe it's just something that was bound to happen.
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I now use my own email server for that reason. It still has the occassional problem but it's no where near as often. Unfortunely it's still a pain to reactive Yahoo Groups after one of these issues.
I had my ex-register register kavlon.info (because I own kavlon.com and kavlon.org) and try to blackmail me into buying it from them. They put it in my name but wouldn't give me access to it. I tried finding some legal method to force them to give it to me, or sale it at a fair price, since it's a name that I have trademarked but it didn't do any good. To me, if a domain was paid for by you, registered in your name, or contains your trademark then you should be able to get control of that domain. The whole domain system is kinda based on a shitty system where getting stuff done fairly involves spending a lot of money or spending a lot of time contacting people.
The annoying thing is that sometimes you get banned from groups because your email doesn't go through. An annoying thing if you belong to very many email groups. In light of their own poor uptime you'd think they'd make their groups less picky about mail servers being temporarily busy or down.
My favorite Windows apps:
Firefox
Thunderbird
Gimp
OpenOffice
Putty
Filezilla
Inkscape
Other than that about it's good for is games.
I haven't used a Real product since before the year 2000. That's forever in the life of a software product. I certainly won't be using any Real products in the future having heard this statement.
I encourage Linux vendors to not support DRM. If you support DRM, other than in converting it to a non-DRM format, I will not use your products. I've already made it a practice to avoid products that have DRM, that hasn't yet been broken, in them and I'll continue doing the same. As it is I'm already planning to not buy any HD-DVD/Blueray movies, or players, that contain DRM (again, until the DRM is broken).
I agree. The average consumer is looking for games more like Duck Hunt than Halo. Games of Halo's complexity are to much for many child, older people, and most anyone that is just a casual gamer (most of the market). I think Nintendo is smart to be working on building games more oriented to the casual gamer and working on making the experience easier for them by using natural movements rather than having to learn a joystick, keyboard, or mouse.
Duck Hunt was awesome for it's time and a lot of players would like similar games with some more modern touches.
Why shift content off screen when you can just tell it to not display it with your CSS? that's one of those things people do that I can't really see the point of (shifting, not hiding). Is there a benefit to only shifting it?
Be warned that you need to block your stylesheets from being crawled though if you try to hide text from users with CSS because search engines can mistake (or be correct in some cases) that as spamming and kill your search placement because of it.
It's a handy way to put more keywords in pages that users might not want to see. So you can put "Scene [Lifestyle]" and only have the user see the word "Scene" so you are actually helping people find you. Something I do is include common differences in how to write part numbers in that kind of hidden text. On my site the users can search and find stuff by that hidden text but they won't see it because it'd be confussing to them. I go ahead and include it in the page source though so that people searching on Google, Yahoo, etc can also find those pages. Pretty much what the keywords meta tag probably should be used for but isn't since search engine spammers devalued those tags.
My company has both Yahoo and Google ads and the Google ads the past few days have seemed to go a little nuts. Ad groups that previously were getting a couple hundred impressions a day and maybe a couple clicks are getting 70,000 impressions a day and a couple dozen clicks before I pause the groups effected. None of these extra clicks are doing anything on my site really so I'm thinking it may be somebody's click bot gone nuts. The first morning I came in and saw 70,000 impressions I was really saying what the fuck.
So much for Linux versions. From a developer that was at least warm to the concept. Damn.
Did anyone else read that as breast implants that let the blind see? Until i stopped and comprehended for a second I had some interesting visions flashing through my mind. Get bigger boobs and replace those nipples with transplanted eyeballs! Sounds like a character off some cheap Star Trek knock-off.
Auto-shading is a good idea but then they already have transition lenses so I dunno why you'd want to do it with electronics.
I'm sure it can store any kind of data but the compression ratio will vary. If you feed it's own output back into it eventually it'll reach a limit where it can't compress anymore. For any normal kind of file though it's a perfectly reasonable concept. I already save a lot of space with my own little filesystem (FUSE based) that avoids saving duplicate files and compresses files that aren't already compressed. Over a large amount of files that saves an amazing amount of space because many files are duplicate. You'll notice that they are targeting these systems for large data warehouses where a lot of files are duplicates and many files have a lot of redundant data.
So make fun of their marketing, marketing is always full of bullshit, but I wouldn't throw this product out as bullshit without hearing more.
I just sent a note to my favorite, Dr. Frankenstein. I'm encouraging him in his latest project to engineer full body clones with minimalist small mammal brain grown in rather than the original human brain. I really can't wait until I can buy a pet girl that looks like a beautiful but that doesn't expect anything from me other than feeding and a bed to sleep in. Dating will be made so much simpler thanks to genetic science!
;)
Okay.. maybe I'm the only one that sufferes from that strange fantasy.
And here I was worried that by 30 I hadn't became a genius yet. Nice to know that with this delay I'm sure to be the worlds biggest supper genius when my time comes! Bwahahaha.
I've wondered why they didn't do this before. It's cool that they finally are. It'll be great when these measure the eye and adjust focus automatically to where you're trying to look and to correct your vision as it changes over time. I imagine the electronics should be pretty easy to scale down as I can't think of any reason why these would be very complicated. Battery life shouldn't be to big a deal. I wonder if they could be kept charged by the user's motion between full recharges.
If more opensource projects would give you a link on their sposnored by page more companies would sponsor them I think. Hell, just posting directions on how to donate helps. The OpenBSD link looks pretty good though - not only do I get to support a project I like but I get a little boost to my own website's link popularity by donating. I'd rather give them the money for the link than some shitty SEO company and their spam site stooges.
Any other projects need a sponsor?
Maybe the original N-Gage. My QD works pretty well. I'd not want to type in hex on a keypad though. :)
They've decided to go back to a known method that worked in the 80's. You get the games printed in books and you have to hand code the hexdecimal in before you can play the game. Of course if you turn off the unit or switch games you'll have to re-enter the game. Since the printed word is compatible with all systems it's sure to be a winner! HD-DVD of course stands for HexDecimal DVD. You'll get the fun of hand entering all the hex before you can watch your movies too. The kids will love all the family time that gives you and for porn it'll be fantastic because you'll develop such strong hands!
Sure opensource is more effecient but that isn't a very powerful motivator. Without an evil empire to drive people into the arms of the opensource rebellion most consumers and developers wouldn't have been very interested. It would have been a technical discussion like pair-programming where only developers were very interested and then not usually to a very passionate level.
True, Microsoft certainly isn't the only company responsible for this. Free software is a tradition that goes back as far as computers go back and especially PCs. Other companies have shown the need for opensource over the years. Microsoft, and the software industry they created, is just the worst offender that has turned a small scale effort into a global war. Lately other industries with similar methods have also gotten involved as the open/free software traditions that existed have bled over into other areas of IP such as music, movies, and publishing. Each new industry that joins the fray is adding fuel to the fire against them. Smarter people would reach a compromise with the consumer before their ivory towers were toppled. Apple I think made a strong effort in the music business to do this but obviously some members of the music industry aren't smart enough to understand why it's good for them to make this compromise so they are screwing up Apple's effort.
;)
But the company most responsible for the IP war taking place is Microsoft. They gave power to the software revolt and that revolt has infected every other area of intellectual property. It's probably good for them that the other IP companies hurt by these changes can't prove all this well enough to sue Microsoft for damages.
That's why we need holographic storage! :) That and I really want to be able to store hundreds of terabytes of porn on a budget.
To some degree I think you're right. In the end it's usually the consumers fault that the consumer gets stuck with shit. There are enough people out there that'll buy whatever they saw the coolest commercial for that it sort of forces companies to ignore quality in favor of marketing. Then you take consumer lock-in which is caused by people being to busy, lazy, and afraid to do something new and the masses end up stuck with a lot of products they aren't really happy with but which they feel they can't change from.
I will argue though that the PC software industry was mostly invented by Bill Gates and it is the way it is because he made it that way. Before Bill we had two ways to buy software really. Either it came from the computer manufacturer or it was available for free from some sort of user-group or publication (opensource pretty much). The PC revolution was largely the gift and curse given to us by Microsoft. All that packaged software available at stores is largely the brain child of Microsoft. Everything about how PC software companies build and sell software is based on what other people saw Microsoft being successful at doing. For a couple decades this way really the only real option consumers had. Switching to Mac might give you different, or even better, programs but it wasn't really a different way of thinking about software. Apple usually does higher-quality products but they are even worse about locking the consumer in.
The first real shift in the PC software market was the shareware craze. When shareware took off it allowed smaller companies to break into the market and allowed consumers more choice in software. For the most part the shareware craze is dead but it was good for the PC industry. As the shareware craze started to run out a new wave of software distribution hit which was a mixture of opensource and free programs that are available for free off the Internet. These programs seriously begun changing the software industry by making software free and attaching advertising, services, etc as the profit center of the market or even just giving away the programs for free. Today almost every PC has at least a few free programs on them and of course the Internet is based on a lot of free programs. From shareware to opensource is the movement in the software industry back towards the roots of software and away from Bill's model. Why is it happening? Largely because Microsoft has made millions of unhappy consumers and alienated many developers so that they don't feel they can compete with Microsoft using Bill's own methods or because they don't like the limitations put on software under Bill's system. Or maybe the developers are unhappy Microsoft consumers too with a grudge and a point to prove.
So yes the consumer is responsible for their own continued bad choices when choices exist but for a long time those choices really didn't exist and now the consumer is locked in and will need to work extra hard to break free. Every bit of software, hardware, documents, and experience they have in the Microsoft world is something they have to work through to break loose of Bill. The only reason so many people are doing all this work to switch is because Microsoft has so clearly shown the contempt they have for their own customers.
In highschool I wanted a way to melt threads out of girls cloths on demand.
Enough energy can probably be sent through the RF to cause the small movements needed. I don't imagine it's a lot of movement. All you'd need to do was swell/shrink the fastener on command to do the job. Or they could maybe do something with magnetic induction or some simple method like that which doesn't require direct contact. Having it only work from a couple inches or less away would help with security anyway.
From what I've studied of Microsoft over the years I'd have to say that if Paul Allen was still the guy in charge I might not be using Linux as my primary OS today. What originally drove me away from Windows and commercial software in general was the attitude that companies had when you had problems with their product. This all stems from the attitudes of the owners of these companies and most of all Bill Gates who is largely the founder and role model of the commercial software industry.
This bad attitude is at the center of the poor customer support, poorly designed and implemented products, and general lack of concern for what effect they're having on their customers and society at large. If Paul Allen had kept the reigns of the PC revolution the entire world could be a very different place now.
By being so extremist in his position Bill Gates created his own worst enemy in the form of free opensource software. It was his influence that created the need for a counter-influence. Someone more centered would never have created such a strong counter-culture.
Apple had a similar experience between Jobs and Woz though so maybe it's just something that was bound to happen.
That too. I would gladly have bought both if they were real products!