T-Mobile has a program that gives you 1000 minutes or texts for $100, and you have a 1 year to use them. I'm not on the phone a lot, so that lasts me five or six months. So I'm paying less than $20 per month.
For years I used a long password at Vanguard. Then I discovered they only use the first 10 characters. So not only do that use weak passwords, they don't even tell you. You could have a long password, but if the first 10 were easily guessed or socially engineered, you wouldn't even know it.
I have a credit card with Chase: they don't even allow non alpha-numeric characters in hteir passwords. What possible reason could they have for limiting characters to letters and numbers?
Congress is trying to regulate cable, just like they regulate regular TV. Senator Stevens is the big gun behind it. What the hell is wrong with Alaskans? Can't they find someone sane to send to Congress?
I think one thing Amazon will have going for them is their website. Assuming they leverage a lot of their existing code, their initial US launch should be miles ahead of Netflix. While Amazon is constantly adding new features that help me find interesting things in the long tail, I don't think Netflix has made an improvement to their website in the two years I've been a customer.
Don't get me wrong, I like Netflix, but the recommendations they make for me are almost always off target. On the other hand, Amazon is always presenting me with interesting recommendations on music and books.
That's just one feature that I expect they will execute better than Netflix. They also have a slew of fetaures Netflix doesn't offer. Some of the ones I've found useful include "the page you made", "customers who bought this also bought this", "customers who viewed this also viewed this".
Then's there's "Artist Essentials". Just getting into jazz but overwhelmed by the many choices for say, Ella Fitzgerald? Then check out her "Artist Essentials". It's just a static list, so how hard could it be to implement? But if you want an opinion from Netflix about the best movies of, say, Jim Jarmusch, well, you're just SOL.
All in all, I'd say Amazon's entry into this market will introduce some good competition, and we're all going to benefit.
Having worked and travelled in various parts of Africa, I urge you to be careful regarding mapping. You didn't mention where you are going, and perhaps it will all work out, but many police and military units in Africa will prevent you from taking pictures of "sensitive" subjects like bridges or government buildings. If they don't want you taking pictures, one can only imagine how they would feel about recording GPS data.
"All across the country", they say. Sounds like somebody's been snorting a little too much chalk dust.
Here in Portland, OR, they're trying to figure out how to replace the 3-year, 1.5% income tax that expires next year. When you're firing teachers and cutting classroom hours, you probably don't spend much time evalutating interactive keyboards.
Could it be that the WMSCI 2005 website was randomly genereated? Get a load of this pile of crap on the very first page:
A Metaphor
Through WMSCI conferences, we are trying to relate the analytic thinking required in focused conference sessions, to the synthetic thinking, required for analogies generation, which calls for multi-focus domain and
divergent thinking. We are trying to promote a synergic relation between analytically and synthetically oriented minds, as
it is found between left and right brain hemispheres, by means of the corpus callosum. Then, WMSCI 2005 might be perceived as a research corpus callosum, trying to bridge analytically with synthetically oriented efforts, convergent with divergent thinkers and focused specialists with non-focused or multi-focused generalists.
(Emphasis entirely theirs.)
First, there needs to be a media firestorm about this. Then, just as in Rathergate, Slashdot should fire a few low-level scapegoats now, claiming shoddy journalistic standards. Then Commander Taco should be be allowed to resign "for personal reasons" in a few months.
# IsNot 11/17/2003 10:50 PM.NET From India
Wow now we need not remember to put a Not before a condition to negate the condition.
Now if only they could do something for all the VB programmers who forget to use the = operator when they're trying to determine if two things are equal.
RTFA
He did not say he believes SCO is right. He said he made a prudent business decision for his company and customers.
Sure, McBride's off his rocker, but not everyone has the resources to fight the good fight.
I say bring it on India. Protectionism does nothing but delay the inevitable. If we protect US jobs, we will decrease competition, and we will stagnate. They'll eat our lunch in the long run if they're better, no matter what. But if we compete with them, then maybe we'll be forced to get better at our jobs.
I agree. I'm still using SpamCop, but I get serveral false negative a day that Mozilla recognizes as junk, and several false negatives that Mozilla recognizes as valid mail. Why should I pay them $30 a year when Mozilla gives me better filtering?
The cover story of The Economist this week is about the development of alternative sources of energy, and how little the Bush administration is doing to encourage that development. Rather than implementing policies to decrease the demand for fossil fuels and increase the supply of alternatives, the government's policies, including the new Energy Bill, simply focus on increasing the supply of fossil fuels.
If you can provide MD5sums for any of the files listed in MISSING-FILES, it would be very much appreciated.
Uh, am I missing something? If I cracked your site, put a file on it, and then you asked the world for valid MD5 sums, wouldn't I be more than willing to give you the MD5 sum for the bogus file?
Slashdot Mirror
In other words, military bases implement reasonable gun regulations. "A well regulated Militia", I guess.
T-Mobile has a program that gives you 1000 minutes or texts for $100, and you have a 1 year to use them. I'm not on the phone a lot, so that lasts me five or six months. So I'm paying less than $20 per month.
For years I used a long password at Vanguard. Then I discovered they only use the first 10 characters. So not only do that use weak passwords, they don't even tell you. You could have a long password, but if the first 10 were easily guessed or socially engineered, you wouldn't even know it.
Keller? Sounders? This is unwatchable. #rctid
I have a credit card with Chase: they don't even allow non alpha-numeric characters in hteir passwords. What possible reason could they have for limiting characters to letters and numbers?
Ok, I'll admit this is funny as hell. But what I'm really curious about is who mod'ed it as "informative?"
Dude, you're overestimating "good Christians" if you're actually expecting them to THINK critically.
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Congress is trying to regulate cable, just like they regulate regular TV. Senator Stevens is the big gun behind it. What the hell is wrong with Alaskans? Can't they find someone sane to send to Congress?
I think one thing Amazon will have going for them is their website. Assuming they leverage a lot of their existing code, their initial US launch should be miles ahead of Netflix. While Amazon is constantly adding new features that help me find interesting things in the long tail, I don't think Netflix has made an improvement to their website in the two years I've been a customer.
Don't get me wrong, I like Netflix, but the recommendations they make for me are almost always off target. On the other hand, Amazon is always presenting me with interesting recommendations on music and books.
That's just one feature that I expect they will execute better than Netflix. They also have a slew of fetaures Netflix doesn't offer. Some of the ones I've found useful include "the page you made", "customers who bought this also bought this", "customers who viewed this also viewed this".
Then's there's "Artist Essentials". Just getting into jazz but overwhelmed by the many choices for say, Ella Fitzgerald? Then check out her "Artist Essentials". It's just a static list, so how hard could it be to implement? But if you want an opinion from Netflix about the best movies of, say, Jim Jarmusch, well, you're just SOL.
All in all, I'd say Amazon's entry into this market will introduce some good competition, and we're all going to benefit.
Now, if he has said "years before I was the best software engineer on the planet" then you would have a point.
Having worked and travelled in various parts of Africa, I urge you to be careful regarding mapping. You didn't mention where you are going, and perhaps it will all work out, but many police and military units in Africa will prevent you from taking pictures of "sensitive" subjects like bridges or government buildings. If they don't want you taking pictures, one can only imagine how they would feel about recording GPS data.
"All across the country", they say. Sounds like somebody's been snorting a little too much chalk dust.
Here in Portland, OR, they're trying to figure out how to replace the 3-year, 1.5% income tax that expires next year. When you're firing teachers and cutting classroom hours, you probably don't spend much time evalutating interactive keyboards.
Could it be that the WMSCI 2005 website was randomly genereated? Get a load of this pile of crap on the very first page:
, trying to bridge analytically with synthetically oriented efforts, convergent with divergent thinkers and focused specialists with non-focused or multi-focused generalists.
(Emphasis entirely theirs.)
A Metaphor
Through WMSCI conferences, we are trying to relate the analytic thinking required in focused conference sessions, to the synthetic thinking, required for analogies generation, which calls for multi-focus domain and divergent thinking. We are trying to promote a synergic relation between analytically and synthetically oriented minds, as it is found between left and right brain hemispheres, by means of the corpus callosum. Then, WMSCI 2005 might be perceived as a research corpus callosum
Grand Theft Auto
First, there needs to be a media firestorm about this. Then, just as in Rathergate, Slashdot should fire a few low-level scapegoats now, claiming shoddy journalistic standards. Then Commander Taco should be be allowed to resign "for personal reasons" in a few months.
Then tell me this: what if someone searches for, say, "Vuitton competitors". Or "Vuitton sucks".
Friday the 13th, April 2029.
RTFA He did not say he believes SCO is right. He said he made a prudent business decision for his company and customers. Sure, McBride's off his rocker, but not everyone has the resources to fight the good fight.
I say bring it on India. Protectionism does nothing but delay the inevitable. If we protect US jobs, we will decrease competition, and we will stagnate. They'll eat our lunch in the long run if they're better, no matter what. But if we compete with them, then maybe we'll be forced to get better at our jobs.
Hmm. Saving user settings over the internet via some protocol other than HTTP. Anyone like to get together with me and patent that idea?
I agree. I'm still using SpamCop, but I get serveral false negative a day that Mozilla recognizes as junk, and several false negatives that Mozilla recognizes as valid mail. Why should I pay them $30 a year when Mozilla gives me better filtering?
The cover story of The Economist this week is about the development of alternative sources of energy, and how little the Bush administration is doing to encourage that development. Rather than implementing policies to decrease the demand for fossil fuels and increase the supply of alternatives, the government's policies, including the new Energy Bill, simply focus on increasing the supply of fossil fuels.
Sigh.
Or just use Mailinator.