I went into the ditch on the highway on Christmas day (night).. Lots of people stopped and asked if I was alright.. (I was, car was upright, no damage, just waiting for a tow.)
It's amazing how helpful people can be, and I'll give you the pat on the back if no other slashdotter will. Good job, I'd buy ya a beer mate.
Thanks for the post, very interesting read and appreciated. I remember having seen both WUsage and Mapedit in the past, and it's good to hear you're making a go of it still.
Inspiring anyway, just think of this as a +1 insightful/interesting.
Anyone talking about suing SPEWS is a fucking moron - yes, that's you.
What are you suing them for? Providing a list? They don't block SHIT, as you little spammers never seem to realize. They provide a LIST, nothing more. YOUR ISP can choose to use the provided list, in whole or in part, or not at all. Sue them.
Moron. Go back to your mobile home and spam some more, dickhead.
It's amazing to sit down with someone without the same reading/thinking habits and outline to them just what you think COULD happen in the next 50 years...
The real effects on nanotech, etc..
Reminds me of a book/short story I once read that started with the protagonist murdering his mother with an axe, and her being "resurrected" by her nano-bed, very annoyed at him for his continued anti-social (but consequenceless) behavior.
I met a sales exec for these guys at Internext in Florida at the beginning of august.
Keep in mind that he's at an internet porn convention..
Now, his spiel is that we should use DivX on all of our sites because it is "better" than WMV, and that they have an installed base of 80 million users. (He justified that by saying they have 80 million downloads.)
I said, sorry, as a paysite guy, WMV and MPG1 are good enough, and without an auto-codec download with WMP, DivX would never fly as a replacement.
I asked him why we would ever want to reencode all of our video in an additional format that has no benefits over WMV or MPG1. His answer was that it is "free" - I begin to think he is on crack.
He then goes on to tell me how DivX is the most popular format on Kazaa. (The place where we get our content pirated on)...
Then, after pressing, he admits this little gem:
"I'm sorry, we don't actually license our codec to the adult industry."
I'm sorry, WTF are you doing here again?
"So you'll give it to the people who pirate our content, but you won't license it to the content producers?"
"Yes."
You fucking moron. Expect DivX on fuckedcompany very soon, if it's not already there.
You obviously don't know shit about processing credit cards in the "high risk" sector, which is what penis pills and porn sites are.
You think Visa takes the hit on a chargeback? Or the bank? No, it's the company the made the charge. They get a pretty hefty fine, and can possibly get terminated by Visa/MC if their chargeback ratios are too high.
Do you think they are going to PAY the spamming moron that is carding them? No, they're not. Not to mention that most IPSPs (third party CC processors) are pretty good at catching carding these days. And even some of the merchant account gateways are good these days. ESPECIALLY for high risk.
In short, your post is pretty misleading and just plain wrong.
He screwed Woz over on their first ever cash deal.
He pushed Woz out of the company.
When he came back out of his ouster for his crap, he pushed out Gil Amelio, killed all of his projects (Newton anyone?), fired all of the people he hired, claimed credit for the financial reform that Amelio had accomplished (Apple was going for bankrupt, Amelio turned it around).
On top of that, as soon as he got in, he made an unnecessary $150 million deal with Microsoft that Amelio had refused because they didn't need the cash, and because Gates wouldn't give him what he wanted (timely ports of MS Office).
Jobs sucks. The fact that Apple has come back is nice and all, but that doesn't change the fact that there's a dumbass piece of shit running it.
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Nah, the spammers are still alive, so it's clearly your fault.
I'm afraid you're going to have to give some background on this "I'm on the bus" bit for us "pommy-challenged" types. ;>
Only crap paysites these days buy their content (or, in more industry terms - have "non-exclusive" content.)
The real big sites (bangbus, milfhunter, etc) - all of that is their own exclusive content.
And it is just as much copyrighted content (and thus infringement) as anything else on Kazaa.
That is the Microsoft Natural "Elite" you are describing. The original is still sold, just look around some more.
I had the Elite for a short period of time at a workplace - it was awful.
Way to promote your product when someone asks!
What's your product? You've got me all curious now. ;>
Also, we shouldn't arrest murderers because clearly that doesn't work. People are still murdered every day.
No, they need to be arrested and put in Federal PMITA prison.
Kudos to you.
I went into the ditch on the highway on Christmas day (night).. Lots of people stopped and asked if I was alright.. (I was, car was upright, no damage, just waiting for a tow.)
It's amazing how helpful people can be, and I'll give you the pat on the back if no other slashdotter will. Good job, I'd buy ya a beer mate.
Thanks for the post, very interesting read and appreciated. I remember having seen both WUsage and Mapedit in the past, and it's good to hear you're making a go of it still.
Inspiring anyway, just think of this as a +1 insightful/interesting.
Cheers,
Backov
Yes, I believe he was being sarcastic, and referring quite explicitly to - wait for it..
Star Tres: TOS
Quite apropos for a Farscape discussion, since FS is so much better written than any Trek.
Human beings are overrated anyway, we can always make more of the (mostly) useless things.
I prefer to use live spammers, it's more humane.
"this sig is about you"
would work better.
Ya, it's always fun to Gestapo your offsprings musical tastes.
It makes them like you so much more when you're old, feeble, and dependent on them.
Pull that spammers hand out of your ass, puppet.
Anyone talking about suing SPEWS is a fucking moron - yes, that's you.
What are you suing them for? Providing a list? They don't block SHIT, as you little spammers never seem to realize. They provide a LIST, nothing more. YOUR ISP can choose to use the provided list, in whole or in part, or not at all. Sue them.
Moron. Go back to your mobile home and spam some more, dickhead.
I agree with pretty much all of your sentiments.
It's amazing to sit down with someone without the same reading/thinking habits and outline to them just what you think COULD happen in the next 50 years...
The real effects on nanotech, etc..
Reminds me of a book/short story I once read that started with the protagonist murdering his mother with an axe, and her being "resurrected" by her nano-bed, very annoyed at him for his continued anti-social (but consequenceless) behavior.
Anyway, cheers mate, well said.
I'd vote for ya.
Too bad I'm a Canadian.
Every time I advocate spammer assasination and torture, I get modded down. Damn liberals.
Personally, if I am in prison and I don't want to shiv my cellmate, I let him have anal sex with my as often as he likes.
After all, if you don't like anal rape, why go to prison?
I met a sales exec for these guys at Internext in Florida at the beginning of august.
Keep in mind that he's at an internet porn convention..
Now, his spiel is that we should use DivX on all of our sites because it is "better" than WMV, and that they have an installed base of 80 million users. (He justified that by saying they have 80 million downloads.)
I said, sorry, as a paysite guy, WMV and MPG1 are good enough, and without an auto-codec download with WMP, DivX would never fly as a replacement.
I asked him why we would ever want to reencode all of our video in an additional format that has no benefits over WMV or MPG1. His answer was that it is "free" - I begin to think he is on crack.
He then goes on to tell me how DivX is the most popular format on Kazaa. (The place where we get our content pirated on)...
Then, after pressing, he admits this little gem:
"I'm sorry, we don't actually license our codec to the adult industry."
I'm sorry, WTF are you doing here again?
"So you'll give it to the people who pirate our content, but you won't license it to the content producers?"
"Yes."
You fucking moron. Expect DivX on fuckedcompany very soon, if it's not already there.
Interoperability?
Now imagine that same thing with a death ray and deflector shields to go along with it's human detector!
Oh the humanity!
You obviously don't know shit about processing credit cards in the "high risk" sector, which is what penis pills and porn sites are.
You think Visa takes the hit on a chargeback? Or the bank? No, it's the company the made the charge. They get a pretty hefty fine, and can possibly get terminated by Visa/MC if their chargeback ratios are too high.
Do you think they are going to PAY the spamming moron that is carding them? No, they're not. Not to mention that most IPSPs (third party CC processors) are pretty good at catching carding these days. And even some of the merchant account gateways are good these days. ESPECIALLY for high risk.
In short, your post is pretty misleading and just plain wrong.
Are there any decent alternatives to these? Ones that will preferrably take txt/html and possibly even PDF?
Or will the old ones do it? Can I buy an old 1100 or whatever on ebay and still get all the software tools (non-crippled ones?)
Ya, he's not just a suit - he's a SCUMBALL suit.
He screwed Woz over on their first ever cash deal.
He pushed Woz out of the company.
When he came back out of his ouster for his crap, he pushed out Gil Amelio, killed all of his projects (Newton anyone?), fired all of the people he hired, claimed credit for the financial reform that Amelio had accomplished (Apple was going for bankrupt, Amelio turned it around).
On top of that, as soon as he got in, he made an unnecessary $150 million deal with Microsoft that Amelio had refused because they didn't need the cash, and because Gates wouldn't give him what he wanted (timely ports of MS Office).
Jobs sucks. The fact that Apple has come back is nice and all, but that doesn't change the fact that there's a dumbass piece of shit running it.