Whats In it For Me! A key marketing term. People only go to a web site when there is something in it for them.
If you just put advertising for your service or product, people will only go when they want your service or product -- if they make it through all your competitors. People generally do not send others to a sales pitch. If you put up information related to your product, but also to educate them and turn it into more of a destination then to buy, you get people going there before they want to buy so when they want to buy, they check you first.
They don't deserve the name geek. They like Windows. They say that the hard drive is bad when you get a message, "Windows can't operate this drive." Anyone calling themselfs a geek should know better.
One member of a geek squad was insulted when I said that the person who does a diagnostic should be qualified to do one -- not someone who just came in from the parking lot from collecting carriages. Of course she never disputed the qualified bit.
I get paid, but I write good code. When at a company, I rewrote a message compiler (similar to the Windows rc.exe), on my own time, to speed it from 45:00 to 3:15.
How much did Microsoft pay the Thai IT minister? Or is this the case of a government official knowing nothing about what he/she/it is regulating?
His statement, "As a programmer, if I can write good code, why should I give it away? Thailand can do good source code without open source," shows that he does not know the true hacker ethic. A true hacker writes code to be proud of, not because he/she is being paid but because of pride in code.
What they don't say is the amount per user. China has the greatest number of internet users, which would take more people to handle the internet censoring. If you only allow 3,000 people to access the internet it is very easy to limit them. When you have 200,000,000 people it take more -- especially when there are many people trying to hack through their blocks.
This is the result of bad customer service. If you call the companies with bad customer service, they are not allowed to give out the location. Now we know why.
Bennett is in Washington, and does not point out that those are Washington rules. Each state has their own rules, but most are similar.
Some differences in California are:
1. You can use regular certified mail in small claims, only if the court does it. They charge $8.00 to do it.
2. You can serve a rented mailbox, or what it is technically called is a commercial mail receiving agency (CMRA).
Under California Business and Professions Code 17538.5, when a person takes out a box in a CMRA, you appoint the CMRA as an agent for service of process.
Also, he does not mention that with a P.O. Box, there is a form that can be used to request the box owners name and address for service of process.
Come on people. Routers are cheap. It is better to use a hardware router instead of a Windows machine as a router. At home, I run a 300MHz Pentium II as a router. At the office, a router is used.
Everyone knows Windows is insecure. It only costs $30/$40 for a router. $29 for a D-Link DI-704P 4-Port Cable/DSL Router at outpost.com
How do you know it is really a compiler bug until you look at the compiler output?
You can guess by saying with certain options, the program works, and with other options the program fails. But,you cannot be sure until you read the code.
What you said about rewriting code to avoid the problem reminded me of when I had a bug with Masm which would not do proper offsets with structures, so I changed the order of the structure so it would not matter. The problem is that before you change the code (or compiler options) you should know the problem, not just guess it.
Back in my days at Sytron, I built a DLL mechanism under DOS. Since the MS Compiler (5.1) at the time did not support Tiny model, I ended up using Watcom for the loadable module and MSC for the main program. Of course I had to understand how both compilers work so that I could handle the stack frame differences between the two compilers. I was really impressed with the quality of the Watcom output.
Spending time doing assembler is good. Though you may not be programming it for a job, it improves the depth of understanding of the higher level languages and how the machine works. By understanding how the compiler converts the code, you can optimize your code to allow compilers to work more efficiently -- ie. i=2; if (x) i=5; Here, you only have one branch, not two and there is minimal cost to set a value.
Knowing assembler language does help in debugging, especially when there is compiler bugs.
Instead of sending a stupid note to the spammer, why not send his cellmate some penis enlargment pills and instant cialis tabs? Of course if his cellmate has an erection that last for more than 4 hours they both should get medical attention.
These days it seems as though many programmers don't know assember. They don't know what it is program with limited amounts of memory and how to write tight and fast code. Part of it may be marketing checklists, but some of it is ignorance and lazyness.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." -- Scotty.
"Insanity is defined as repeating the same behavior and expecting a different result."
Micorosoft have been patching security for years. They now claim, "Security is job one." Do you believe it? Why would you? I would not trust IE unless it is rewritten from scratch. There is only so many patches you can do.
I worked on CALANdar back in the 90s. The program started its life as a quick and dirty in/out notifier. Over the years, it turned into a groupware scheduling package. Ignoring my protestations regarding security risks, I was required to add OLE to the Windows version. There was comments from the original author that said "I know this case is F**Ked, but Dick wanted it done now, I will fix it later." That code was there 4 years after the original author left. When you add onto an unstable base, you do not make code more stable.
After the failed attempt of the illegal alien crowd to shut down the USA by telling immigrants to march on one day (they don't differentiate between illegal and legal), Spamhaus should try the same.
Have spamhaus pick a day and time to report empty lists from 9am to 11:59am on a Monday. Then lets see what Congress and the FTC says.
The FTC issued a report (http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/06/adv1.htm) claiming that labelling spam would not be as effective as filters. If the idiots at the FTC and in Washington would feel the effect of spamhuas being down for a few hours.
Mandatory labelling os spam is effective. It would cut net traffic and processing time for some of the spam and make it easier to prosecute the illegal spammers.
I have many thoughts on the legal issues, but Steve Linford said not to discuss those as they may give the spammers idea. I will respect that.
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Whats In it For Me!
A key marketing term. People only go to a web site when there is something in it for them.
If you just put advertising for your service or product, people will only go when they want your service or product -- if they make it through all your competitors. People generally do not send others to a sales pitch. If you put up information related to your product, but also to educate them and turn it into more of a destination then to buy, you get people going there before they want to buy so when they want to buy, they check you first.
I didn't. A friend who lives 300 miles away did.
They don't deserve the name geek. They like Windows. They say that the hard drive is bad when you get a message, "Windows can't operate this drive." Anyone calling themselfs a geek should know better.
One member of a geek squad was insulted when I said that the person who does a diagnostic should be qualified to do one -- not someone who just came in from the parking lot from collecting carriages. Of course she never disputed the qualified bit.
Sort of. I believe he is talking about the Google search engine, not google groups which was Dejanews.
A couple of years ago, it might have to be a high volume list. I get over 1,000 spams a day. In 3 days I have almost 29M in 3200 emails.
Lets see, they advocate the government looking over the shoulder and using Wikipedia to determine danger.
First, there is a problem with governmental idiots in charge of something they don't understand.
Two, I don't buy Wikipedia as an authoritative source. While it is source, it could be a start point, not an end point.
And of course this would not apply to marketing hyped products -- the nano-tech car wax and nano-tech hair shampoo; Right???
I get paid, but I write good code. When at a company, I rewrote a message compiler (similar to the Windows rc.exe), on my own time, to speed it from 45:00 to 3:15.
How much did Microsoft pay the Thai IT minister? Or is this the case of a government official knowing nothing about what he/she/it is regulating?
His statement, "As a programmer, if I can write good code, why should I give it away? Thailand can do good source code without open source," shows that he does not know the true hacker ethic. A true hacker writes code to be proud of, not because he/she is being paid but because of pride in code.
What they don't say is the amount per user. China has the greatest number of internet users, which would take more people to handle the internet censoring. If you only allow 3,000 people to access the internet it is very easy to limit them. When you have 200,000,000 people it take more -- especially when there are many people trying to hack through their blocks.
How dare you criticize our jamming of Wifi signals. Terrorists may use them to hack into the security systems and share information with Al Queda.
This has nothing to do with our profits.
Another bug?? I want a refund! It's free? I want double my money back!
I thought that referred to that specific section. Maybe I am being too picky.
This is the result of bad customer service. If you call the companies with bad customer service, they are not allowed to give out the location. Now we know why.
Bennett is in Washington, and does not point out that those are Washington rules. Each state has their own rules, but most are similar.
Some differences in California are:
1. You can use regular certified mail in small claims, only if the court does it. They charge $8.00 to do it.
2. You can serve a rented mailbox, or what it is technically called is a commercial mail receiving agency (CMRA).
Under California Business and Professions Code 17538.5, when a person takes out a box in a CMRA, you appoint the CMRA as an agent for service of process.
Also, he does not mention that with a P.O. Box, there is a form that can be used to request the box owners name and address for
service of process.
Come on people. Routers are cheap. It is better to use a hardware router instead of a Windows machine as a router. At home, I run a 300MHz Pentium II as a router. At the office, a router is used.
Everyone knows Windows is insecure. It only costs $30/$40 for a router. $29 for a D-Link DI-704P 4-Port Cable/DSL Router at outpost.com
This is not from the Minority Report that was released in 2002. This was shown in shuttle interface in Earth the Final Conflict which aired in 1997.
This type of interface was also in The first $20 millions is the hardest. But that came out in the same year as The Minority report.
A year in jail and they buy penis enlargment pills and instant cialis tabs for their cellmate.
How do you know it is really a compiler bug until you look at the compiler output?
You can guess by saying with certain options, the program works, and with other options the program fails. But,you cannot be sure until you read the code.
What you said about rewriting code to avoid the problem reminded me of when I had a bug with Masm which would not do proper offsets with structures, so I changed the order of the structure so it would not matter. The problem is that before you change the code (or compiler options) you should know the problem, not just guess it.
Back in my days at Sytron, I built a DLL mechanism under DOS. Since the MS Compiler (5.1) at the time did not support Tiny model, I ended up using Watcom for the loadable module and MSC for the main program. Of course I had to understand how both compilers work so that I could handle the stack frame differences between the two compilers. I was really impressed with the quality of the Watcom output.
Spending time doing assembler is good. Though you may not be programming it for a job, it improves the depth of understanding of the higher level languages and how the machine works. By understanding how the compiler converts the code, you can optimize your code to allow compilers to work more efficiently -- ie. i=2; if (x) i=5; Here, you only have one branch, not two and there is minimal cost to set a value.
Knowing assembler language does help in debugging, especially when there is compiler bugs.
Instead of sending a stupid note to the spammer, why not send his cellmate some penis enlargment pills and instant cialis tabs? Of course if his cellmate has an erection that last for more than 4 hours they both should get medical attention.
There was no jurisdiction on the court over ICANN. A court can't issue a an order
against a non-party to a case.
In California, that is why there is a joinder in divorce cases, to get the pension plans and such to be subject to the orders of the court.
These days it seems as though many programmers don't know assember. They don't know what it is program with limited amounts of memory and how to write tight and fast code. Part of it may be marketing checklists, but some of it is ignorance and lazyness.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." -- Scotty.
"Insanity is defined as repeating the same behavior and expecting a different result."
Micorosoft have been patching security for years. They now claim, "Security is job one." Do you believe it? Why would you? I would not trust IE unless it is rewritten from scratch. There is only so many patches you can do.
I worked on CALANdar back in the 90s. The program started its life as a quick and dirty in/out notifier. Over the years, it turned into a groupware scheduling package. Ignoring my protestations regarding security risks, I was required to add OLE to the Windows version. There was comments from the original author that said "I know this case is F**Ked, but Dick wanted it done now, I will fix it later." That code was there 4 years after the original author left. When you add onto an unstable base, you do not make code more stable.
After the failed attempt of the illegal alien crowd to shut down the USA by telling immigrants to march on one day (they don't differentiate between illegal and legal), Spamhaus should try the same.
Have spamhaus pick a day and time to report empty lists from 9am to 11:59am on a Monday. Then lets see what Congress and the FTC says.
The FTC issued a report (http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/06/adv1.htm) claiming that labelling spam would not be as effective as filters. If the idiots at the FTC and in Washington would feel the effect of spamhuas being down for a few hours.
Mandatory labelling os spam is effective. It would cut net traffic and processing time for some of the spam and make it easier to prosecute the illegal spammers.
I have many thoughts on the legal issues, but Steve Linford said not to discuss those as they may give the spammers idea. I will respect that.