One of the best technical programming journals there is.
Make that was. I stuck with DDJ for years until it suddenly occurred to me that the vast majority of the articles had become novice-level material. This was probably back in the late '90s. Maybe it's improved since.
Dell, like any other large corporation, has an army of lawyers who review every aspect of rebate offers such as this. I have a hard time imagining that one of them didn't think about the possibility of receiving dead iPods. The condition of the iPod wasn't left out due to oversight. A far easier explanation is that they don't care.
Dell is doing this as much for the PR as anything else. They're not going to resell the iPods. The condition of any one iPod is irrelevant to them.
I'm in the same boat. I get between 150-200 spams a day and 3-10 real messages. A combination of blacklist queries (hits add a header) and Bogofilter has been working for me for many months now with near perfect accuracy. Lately one particular spam message has been making it through, but it's rare that I find ham in the spam box or vice versa.
(the DJ's I know are about as random as you can get)
I don't know what radio station you listen to, but the ones around here are anything but random. Their algorithm is to pick a song from a short list of 10-15 that have already been played to death, and maybe once every couple of hours, pick a song they played into the ground last month.
I'm amazed I haven't seen anyone else mention this, but lots of people agreed over a year ago to send their checks to the EFF. The domain has since gone off-line, but SendItToTheEFF.org was mentionedonseveral blogs back in early 2003. It was also mentioned in EFF's EFFector newsletter.
They're only selling 1/3 in the IPO. That doesn't stop the VCs and insiders from exercising and selling their options. The primary motivation for an IPO is often because the early investors want to cash out and get a return on their investment. The employees will certainly be dumping some shares in the name of diversification, too.
It won't happen immediately, but in time more than 50% of the company's stock will be available on the public markets. Go look at Yahoo. Look at the percentage held by insiders. The rest is available on the public market and you could buy it all, given enough time and money.
walmart.com has had a DVD rental service that is a thinly veiled rip-off of Netflix for some time now. I haven't seen it stealing much of Netflix's business, though, even though walmart.com is undercutting the Netflix subscription by a buck and change (note that the $15.54 plan is only 2 out at a time).
Wal-Mart corporate really doesn't care about the.com very much. I've known people who interviewed there and the opinion they came away with from the experience was that the people working there didn't really know what they were doing. They've got a chunk of money from the mothership and they're basically playing with it, following the lead of whatever business seems to be the hot thing this week. First it was general e-commerce, then DVD rentals, now music sales.
If I were Apple, I'd hardly be worried about the iTMS.
AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis: Supported through server-side decoding May be streamed in PCM (raw) or MP3 (transcoded) format
Seems to me that if the server were run on a Mac that had been authenticated for a given encrypted AAC, it should be able to do the decryption and stream out the track just fine.
Then perhaps it isn't a coincidence that a LOT of the spam I report to Spamcop ends up sending abuse reports to.cn sites. I've seriously given thought to flagging the entire Asian continent.
Brazil is a problem for me, too, but not nearly as big.
SpamCop makes an effort to hide your email address when you report spam through them, but it doesn't always work. Though it hasn't happened lately, I've noticed where it thinks my email is associated with the spammer, and wants to send a complaint to *my* ISP.
The spammers certainly picked up on this effort to mask the reporter's email address. I'm convinced that the random strings of letters and nonsense sentences are in fact obfuscations of an ID that leads back to an email address in their databases. When they get a spam complaint, they need only look that up in their database, and now they know that email address is actively read.
I took many months off sending my spam to SpamCop. I recently started up again, and while I don't have proof, it sure seems like my incoming spam has multiplied. I'm up to 100-150 per day now. Thankfully, most of it is flagged by various block lists I check and the rest is caught by my well-trained bogofilter. Spam rarely makes it to my inbox.
There is no reason that you couldn't move your MP3s from iTunes for Windows to your Nomad. They're just files.
The AAC files you'd get from the iTunes Music Service, on the other hand, probably not. Your Nomad would need to know how to play them, deal with the DRM, etc.
I doubt Apple will go to any effort to make synchronizing your Nomad with iTunes easy, either.
All I get is a totally white screen, no text at all.
That's what I get for trying to check it out with a recent Mozilla build on Linux when the plug-in (Flash I'm guessing) was compiled with an older g++. *sigh*
I have the Jukebox Multimedia, and won't be buying another Archos product if I can help it.
I bought my unit as an MP3 player and photo storage device. It works reasonably well as an MP3 player and has decent battery life. As a photo storage device, it still doesn't read IBM/Hitachi Microdrives, even though their tech support swears it should. Their warranty period is very short (90 days) and so I'm out of luck on this one. I've also had problems with the unit keeping a charge and refusing to power up when not on A/C.
I loaned my unit to a friend recently and he had problems getting it to copy more than one file at a time from his CompactFlash cards.
My brother-in-law has the MP3 Recorder from Archos and his unit's D/C jack recently broke off inside. It was floating around and shorting things, causing it to power up and down randomly. We took it apart and soldered it back in place with some short wires (no easy task) and it seems okay now, but with the D/C jack sort of sticking out as an ugly wart.
All in all, the quality is just not there. I'd rather spend a little more and not have these problems.
How can you be sure that your ISP was listed in SpamCop's blocklist as a result of you? It could have been someone else erroneously reporting your ISP, or even a valid report because someone at your ISP spammed someone.
As other posts have said, I have a hard time believing this.
Traditional film requires the light coming in through the lens to interact with the chemicals on the film itself. If the picture is stored in flash so that the user has the opportunity to delete it, where is the camera going to get the light required to expose the film later?
More likely the reason you can only delete the last picture taken is that they didn't want to spend the money for a review LCD and the user interface to go along with it.
Besides, I think the copyright owner is maintained, even when in the public domain.
(IANAL,...) I'm pretty sure this is not the case, as the problem with Congress extending copyright terms is because those works will not fall into the public domain, as they historically have.
If you own the copyright, you have the right to dictate the terms of how a work is copied. If a work is in the public domain, no one owns it (or, everyone owns it, depending on your point of view).
I switched last year, and moving from Quicken '99 on Windows to Quicken '03 on OS X was the most painful part of the process.
Now given, you asked about Quickbooks, not Quicken, but based on my experience, you'll have to jump through some hoops to get there. I had to export my Quicken data to QIF, in the process losing my loans, memorized transactions, scheduled transactions and some other minor stuff. Then I imported this file into Quicken Mac and had to go back and fix everything.
QIF isn't Quicken's native file format. It's simply for transactions. One would think that after a decade of Quicken, Intuit's Windows and Mac engineering teams would share as much code as possible, but it just doesn't seem that way to me.
Quicken Mac '03 itself is an awful product. It lags the Windows '99 product feature-wise, lacks polish and has many bugs. Most of them are of the irritating UI variety, but I've had it crash on me several times and it can't seem to keep track of my home loan without getting the balance out of whack.
Unfortunately, momentum is keeping me with Quicken for now. I'm hoping that '04 is a big step forward. Otherwise I may look at switching to something else, like Moneydance.
Also, he erroneously states in his review that MacOS X comes with Quicken. It doesn't. His iBook does (and so does the iMac), but if you buy MacOS X retail (or a PowerBook or Power Mac) you won't get Quicken.
Is this recent? I bought an iBook last July with 10.1 and I don't remember getting Quicken.
Slightly off-topic, but as a switcher from Windows, Quicken 2003 on the Mac lags Quicken '99 on Windows in many respects. Everything else about switching has been positive, but so far Quicken is a big disappointment.
There were factual errors in the report. He talked to certain people at the company and claimed they said things they did not. He claimed to receive messages from us at specific times, when our system logs clearly show that he did not. There were one or two other minor things.
Let's stay on topic, though, shall we? I'm not arguing that what the company did was right (it most certainly was not). The point I was making is that MAPS doesn't check up on an evidence report. They accept it as correct and factual, and list the offender, regardless of the report's accuracy.
I stand by my claim: it isn't hard to get listed in MAPS.
It's REALLY HARD to get someone listed on the MAPS RBL: Merely reporting an open relay ain't enough. They require extensive documentation.
In my experience, it really isn't that hard to get listed on MAPS. My previous employer decided to harvest Usenet one time to gather addresses of people that might be interested in our service. A couple of months later, MAPS listed us after one person spent some time harassing us to remove his and other's addresses (which we did, promptly, when asked).
When he finally submitted his "evidence," MAPS listed us right away, without even so much as asking us if his take on things was accurate (which it was not in certain key areas). We were notified, but not until after the listing was made. The damage was already done.
In their defense, MAPS did remove us from the list very quickly, once we promised to switch to a confirmed opt-in system for our mailing list, which we did a week or so later. But getting us on the list wasn't very difficult.
For the record, I like MAPS. I don't find it to work particularly well, but I think the idea is good. I still get about the same amount of spam per day as I did before I subscribed, and I rarely see reject messages in my logs based on a MAPS hit. Most of the spam I get is caught by procmail rules that I've crafted over the last couple of years or is rejected by sendmail due to a non-existent sending domain.
Actually, yes it does. Eudora exposes its address book through MAPI. So it'll use your Eudora address book, plus your Exchange address book.
As near as I can tell from my Eudora 4.3.1 install, MAPI is disabled by default. Additionally, Eudora's MAPI server has an option (enabled by default) that will warn whenever mail is automatically sent through MAPI. I'd say that Eudora users, unlike Outlook/Outlook Express users, are far more likely to be immune to the propogation behavior of these worms.
Obviously Eudora users aren't protected from scripts trashing files and the registry, but this is really no different that getting an untrusted executable and running it. The problem is that most users don't recognize the VBS extension and just open it, expecting it to be a document.
That's the critical difference --- with traditional ads (phone ads, paper ads) the advertising company pays for the distribution.
I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but in a way, we all pay for snail-mail adverts, too. The post office has to hire people to sort and deliver all the junk that companies send out, and how do you think the post office pays their salaries? Higher postage rates. This is no different than the comment by someone else that we pay $2-3 more per month for Internet access because of spam. We pay more per ounce for a first-class letter than we should have to, because it isn't cheap to employ those people to sort and deliver all of that junk mail. I bet mail delivery people hate paper junk mail as much as sys admins hate spam. After all, they have to physically cart the stuff around.
Disclaimer: I get as much or more spam as real mail, so trust me, I'm no fan of the stuff. But let's keep things in perspective.
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Make that was. I stuck with DDJ for years until it suddenly occurred to me that the vast majority of the articles had become novice-level material. This was probably back in the late '90s. Maybe it's improved since.
Dell, like any other large corporation, has an army of lawyers who review every aspect of rebate offers such as this. I have a hard time imagining that one of them didn't think about the possibility of receiving dead iPods. The condition of the iPod wasn't left out due to oversight. A far easier explanation is that they don't care.
Dell is doing this as much for the PR as anything else. They're not going to resell the iPods. The condition of any one iPod is irrelevant to them.
I'm in the same boat. I get between 150-200 spams a day and 3-10 real messages. A combination of blacklist queries (hits add a header) and Bogofilter has been working for me for many months now with near perfect accuracy. Lately one particular spam message has been making it through, but it's rare that I find ham in the spam box or vice versa.
I don't know what radio station you listen to, but the ones around here are anything but random. Their algorithm is to pick a song from a short list of 10-15 that have already been played to death, and maybe once every couple of hours, pick a song they played into the ground last month.
Thankfully, there's NPR and my CD changer.
I'm amazed I haven't seen anyone else mention this, but lots of people agreed over a year ago to send their checks to the EFF. The domain has since gone off-line, but SendItToTheEFF.org was mentioned on several blogs back in early 2003. It was also mentioned in EFF's EFFector newsletter.
It won't happen immediately, but in time more than 50% of the company's stock will be available on the public markets. Go look at Yahoo. Look at the percentage held by insiders. The rest is available on the public market and you could buy it all, given enough time and money.
Wal-Mart corporate really doesn't care about the .com very much. I've known people who interviewed there and the opinion they came away with from the experience was that the people working there didn't really know what they were doing. They've got a chunk of money from the mothership and they're basically playing with it, following the lead of whatever business seems to be the hot thing this week. First it was general e-commerce, then DVD rentals, now music sales.
If I were Apple, I'd hardly be worried about the iTMS.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-walmart23nov 23.story
There is also an opinion piece on the San Francisco Chronicle that discusses Wal-Mart and the company's business practices.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/a rchive/2003/12/08/hsorensen.DTL
The hardware specs on the web site say:
AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis:
Supported through server-side decoding
May be streamed in PCM (raw) or MP3 (transcoded) format
Seems to me that if the server were run on a Mac that had been authenticated for a given encrypted AAC, it should be able to do the decryption and stream out the track just fine.
Then perhaps it isn't a coincidence that a LOT of the spam I report to Spamcop ends up sending abuse reports to .cn sites. I've seriously given thought to flagging the entire Asian continent.
Brazil is a problem for me, too, but not nearly as big.
SpamCop makes an effort to hide your email address when you report spam through them, but it doesn't always work. Though it hasn't happened lately, I've noticed where it thinks my email is associated with the spammer, and wants to send a complaint to *my* ISP.
The spammers certainly picked up on this effort to mask the reporter's email address. I'm convinced that the random strings of letters and nonsense sentences are in fact obfuscations of an ID that leads back to an email address in their databases. When they get a spam complaint, they need only look that up in their database, and now they know that email address is actively read.
I took many months off sending my spam to SpamCop. I recently started up again, and while I don't have proof, it sure seems like my incoming spam has multiplied. I'm up to 100-150 per day now. Thankfully, most of it is flagged by various block lists I check and the rest is caught by my well-trained bogofilter. Spam rarely makes it to my inbox.
There is no reason that you couldn't move your MP3s from iTunes for Windows to your Nomad. They're just files.
The AAC files you'd get from the iTunes Music Service, on the other hand, probably not. Your Nomad would need to know how to play them, deal with the DRM, etc.
I doubt Apple will go to any effort to make synchronizing your Nomad with iTunes easy, either.
All I get is a totally white screen, no text at all.
That's what I get for trying to check it out with a recent Mozilla build on Linux when the plug-in (Flash I'm guessing) was compiled with an older g++. *sigh*
I have the Jukebox Multimedia, and won't be buying another Archos product if I can help it.
I bought my unit as an MP3 player and photo storage device. It works reasonably well as an MP3 player and has decent battery life. As a photo storage device, it still doesn't read IBM/Hitachi Microdrives, even though their tech support swears it should. Their warranty period is very short (90 days) and so I'm out of luck on this one. I've also had problems with the unit keeping a charge and refusing to power up when not on A/C.
I loaned my unit to a friend recently and he had problems getting it to copy more than one file at a time from his CompactFlash cards.
My brother-in-law has the MP3 Recorder from Archos and his unit's D/C jack recently broke off inside. It was floating around and shorting things, causing it to power up and down randomly. We took it apart and soldered it back in place with some short wires (no easy task) and it seems okay now, but with the D/C jack sort of sticking out as an ugly wart.
All in all, the quality is just not there. I'd rather spend a little more and not have these problems.
How can you be sure that your ISP was listed in SpamCop's blocklist as a result of you? It could have been someone else erroneously reporting your ISP, or even a valid report because someone at your ISP spammed someone.
You have no influence on what goes into the DNSBl. (other than by not using spamcop).
This is not true. The reporting service has a fairly large influence on what makes it into the blocklist. See What is on the list?As other posts have said, I have a hard time believing this.
Traditional film requires the light coming in through the lens to interact with the chemicals on the film itself. If the picture is stored in flash so that the user has the opportunity to delete it, where is the camera going to get the light required to expose the film later?
More likely the reason you can only delete the last picture taken is that they didn't want to spend the money for a review LCD and the user interface to go along with it.
Besides, I think the copyright owner is maintained, even when in the public domain.
(IANAL, ...) I'm pretty sure this is not the case, as the problem with Congress extending copyright terms is because those works will not fall into the public domain, as they historically have.
If you own the copyright, you have the right to dictate the terms of how a work is copied. If a work is in the public domain, no one owns it (or, everyone owns it, depending on your point of view).
I switched last year, and moving from Quicken '99 on Windows to Quicken '03 on OS X was the most painful part of the process.
Now given, you asked about Quickbooks, not Quicken, but based on my experience, you'll have to jump through some hoops to get there. I had to export my Quicken data to QIF, in the process losing my loans, memorized transactions, scheduled transactions and some other minor stuff. Then I imported this file into Quicken Mac and had to go back and fix everything.
QIF isn't Quicken's native file format. It's simply for transactions. One would think that after a decade of Quicken, Intuit's Windows and Mac engineering teams would share as much code as possible, but it just doesn't seem that way to me.
Quicken Mac '03 itself is an awful product. It lags the Windows '99 product feature-wise, lacks polish and has many bugs. Most of them are of the irritating UI variety, but I've had it crash on me several times and it can't seem to keep track of my home loan without getting the balance out of whack.
Unfortunately, momentum is keeping me with Quicken for now. I'm hoping that '04 is a big step forward. Otherwise I may look at switching to something else, like Moneydance.
You can't have it both ways. Either it's in the public domain or you retain your copyright. Pick one.
Is this recent? I bought an iBook last July with 10.1 and I don't remember getting Quicken.
Slightly off-topic, but as a switcher from Windows, Quicken 2003 on the Mac lags Quicken '99 on Windows in many respects. Everything else about switching has been positive, but so far Quicken is a big disappointment.
There were factual errors in the report. He talked to certain people at the company and claimed they said things they did not. He claimed to receive messages from us at specific times, when our system logs clearly show that he did not. There were one or two other minor things.
Let's stay on topic, though, shall we? I'm not arguing that what the company did was right (it most certainly was not). The point I was making is that MAPS doesn't check up on an evidence report. They accept it as correct and factual, and list the offender, regardless of the report's accuracy.
I stand by my claim: it isn't hard to get listed in MAPS.
In my experience, it really isn't that hard to get listed on MAPS. My previous employer decided to harvest Usenet one time to gather addresses of people that might be interested in our service. A couple of months later, MAPS listed us after one person spent some time harassing us to remove his and other's addresses (which we did, promptly, when asked).
When he finally submitted his "evidence," MAPS listed us right away, without even so much as asking us if his take on things was accurate (which it was not in certain key areas). We were notified, but not until after the listing was made. The damage was already done.
In their defense, MAPS did remove us from the list very quickly, once we promised to switch to a confirmed opt-in system for our mailing list, which we did a week or so later. But getting us on the list wasn't very difficult.
For the record, I like MAPS. I don't find it to work particularly well, but I think the idea is good. I still get about the same amount of spam per day as I did before I subscribed, and I rarely see reject messages in my logs based on a MAPS hit. Most of the spam I get is caught by procmail rules that I've crafted over the last couple of years or is rejected by sendmail due to a non-existent sending domain.
As near as I can tell from my Eudora 4.3.1 install, MAPI is disabled by default. Additionally, Eudora's MAPI server has an option (enabled by default) that will warn whenever mail is automatically sent through MAPI. I'd say that Eudora users, unlike Outlook/Outlook Express users, are far more likely to be immune to the propogation behavior of these worms.
Obviously Eudora users aren't protected from scripts trashing files and the registry, but this is really no different that getting an untrusted executable and running it. The problem is that most users don't recognize the VBS extension and just open it, expecting it to be a document.
That's the critical difference --- with traditional ads (phone ads, paper ads) the advertising company pays for the distribution.
I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but in a way, we all pay for snail-mail adverts, too. The post office has to hire people to sort and deliver all the junk that companies send out, and how do you think the post office pays their salaries? Higher postage rates. This is no different than the comment by someone else that we pay $2-3 more per month for Internet access because of spam. We pay more per ounce for a first-class letter than we should have to, because it isn't cheap to employ those people to sort and deliver all of that junk mail. I bet mail delivery people hate paper junk mail as much as sys admins hate spam. After all, they have to physically cart the stuff around.
Disclaimer: I get as much or more spam as real mail, so trust me, I'm no fan of the stuff. But let's keep things in perspective.