I'm in Ontario as well. I'm tempted to pay a visit to his offices.. "Snip".. no more spam. Forget filters, legal action and the like, this is much more direct. If the ISP's won't do it, I think someone should.
Seriously though, "unbelievable hardships"? Next they're going to start telling us that they are just trying to earn an honest living.
Imagine a computer small enough to fit in your pocket. Imagine a computer in your car. Imagine a computer in your glasses! It sounds like science fiction, but it looks like IBM is actually seizing the bull by the horns and making it a reality.
Um.. To summarize, Computer in your pocket: PocketPCs/Palms Computer in the car: The volvo story that was run a week back Computer in glasses: oh so many stories posted about the wearable computers at MIT.
I thought the exact same thing when I read the article summary. More numbers after a decimal place inuitively make the number look smaller to most. I have the feeling that the marketing department will see that extra digit added on for consistency.
The manufacterors dont want to pay for the cost of digital recievers, the broadcasters dont want to pay to upgrade, and the consumers dont want to pay extra. Of course, all three parties do want digital...
The manufacturers don't want to pay for digital recievers, but they will have to when forced. The broadcasters don't want to pay to upgrade their networks, but eventually they will as well. Both parties will pass the cost to the customer in the form of price increases, who of course doesn't want to pay either - but will be forced to in the end by the government.
Maybe two of the three parties want HDTV, but if the consumer really wanted it, the market demand would drive it naturally.
If this were to become widely adopted, what would stop people from using mailing software that would either parse, or automatically respond to these methods of 'white-listing'? Sure it would be more work, but if you're already going to the effort of spoofing headers and harvesting the web, what's a little more logic?
I'm a subscriber of the previous @Home service offered in Canada, now run by Rogers Cable. After @Home went belly up Rogers salvaged what was originally their own network before @Home moved into Canada.
We've just got capped down to 18KB/s (144kbps) upstream from 48KB/s (384kbps) upstream. Downstream has been sliced in the same ratio as well. To add insult to injury our monthly bills have increased 5 bucks on top of it. It's not going to stop there, they're talking about raising it another 5 bucks again!
Their reasoning for this, I was actually told by a tech support guy is, "why should we beat the competition 3 fold for the same price?". I wonder what RCN's motive to beat their competition is. Perhaps it starts with the fact that they _have_ competition.
I was thinking the exact same thing. There is a certain amount of manufactured obsolesence in a PC, but the components will last ages. Heck, I've got 3 systems running here at a fat 50-60 Bogomips.
Friends of mine are using 286's and earlier for furniture, bookshelf's and cd racks. I even have an IBM system 360 control panel in the garage as an antique!!
Why should _we_ be paying a recycle fee if the machines are not going to be recycled?
Once again, what about the rest of us? I'm sure the guy that stole the tank and went for a joyride in California a few years back felt pretty safe too. In a vehicle that size, if you get into an accident, especially with a small car, you're going to be unscratched, but the other guy may be lucky to survive. When you figure how fast some of the SUV owners drive, then add to that the fact that it takes quite a while for those brakes to bring that huge hunk of iron down to a stop... it's a damn miracle there aren't more wrecks involving them. Perhaps I'm strange, but I would rather drive a pseudo sports car, nimble and quick enough to try to avoid an accident, rather than just trying to survive one.
No lie, the manager of the store had all employee login passwords to our AS/400 server changed to "swordfish" the same week the movie with the same title came out. Also, attached to the terminals in plain view is the entire login information for anyone to use. If that isn't sad enough, he gets paid more than us too.
A password technique I enjoy to throw off over the shoulder reading is to use capital and lowercase letters side by side that are hard to visibily distingush like "iIlL0oOxX", "0Oo" being my favorite.
As soon as the software hits the PC's it becomes much easier to crack, pirate and reverse engineer. And of course having two identical versions of the game on different media would seperate the market, everyone with a Dreamcast would be cut out of the Sega PC market unless they wanted to repurchase all their existing games on DVDs or CDs to play on their PC's.
Good luck on convincing either developers or users. Definitly a hoax.
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And what is 'the point'?
I'm in Ontario as well. I'm tempted to pay a visit to his offices.. "Snip".. no more spam. Forget filters, legal action and the like, this is much more direct. If the ISP's won't do it, I think someone should.
Seriously though, "unbelievable hardships"? Next they're going to start telling us that they are just trying to earn an honest living.
Um.. To summarize,
Computer in your pocket: PocketPCs/Palms
Computer in the car: The volvo story that was run a week back
Computer in glasses: oh so many stories posted about the wearable computers at MIT.
I thought the exact same thing when I read the article summary. More numbers after a decimal place inuitively make the number look smaller to most. I have the feeling that the marketing department will see that extra digit added on for consistency.
Of course I never claimed to be a math major.
I wonder how many people will simply sell their old TV and do something useful with their time/new gained empty space in the living room.
The manufacturers don't want to pay for digital recievers, but they will have to when forced. The broadcasters don't want to pay to upgrade their networks, but eventually they will as well. Both parties will pass the cost to the customer in the form of price increases, who of course doesn't want to pay either - but will be forced to in the end by the government.
Maybe two of the three parties want HDTV, but if the consumer really wanted it, the market demand would drive it naturally.
Yay captialism.
If this were to become widely adopted, what would stop people from using mailing software that would either parse, or automatically respond to these methods of 'white-listing'? Sure it would be more work, but if you're already going to the effort of spoofing headers and harvesting the web, what's a little more logic?
I'm a subscriber of the previous @Home service offered in Canada, now run by Rogers Cable. After @Home went belly up Rogers salvaged what was originally their own network before @Home moved into Canada.
We've just got capped down to 18KB/s (144kbps) upstream from 48KB/s (384kbps) upstream. Downstream has been sliced in the same ratio as well. To add insult to injury our monthly bills have increased 5 bucks on top of it. It's not going to stop there, they're talking about raising it another 5 bucks again!
Their reasoning for this, I was actually told by a tech support guy is, "why should we beat the competition 3 fold for the same price?". I wonder what RCN's motive to beat their competition is. Perhaps it starts with the fact that they _have_ competition.
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I was thinking the exact same thing. There is a certain amount of manufactured obsolesence in a PC, but the components will last ages. Heck, I've got 3 systems running here at a fat 50-60 Bogomips.
Friends of mine are using 286's and earlier for furniture, bookshelf's and cd racks. I even have an IBM system 360 control panel in the garage as an antique!!
Why should _we_ be paying a recycle fee if the machines are not going to be recycled?
Once again, what about the rest of us? I'm sure the guy that stole the tank and went for a joyride in California a few years back felt pretty safe too. In a vehicle that size, if you get into an accident, especially with a small car, you're going to be unscratched, but the other guy may be lucky to survive. When you figure how fast some of the SUV owners drive, then add to that the fact that it takes quite a while for those brakes to bring that huge hunk of iron down to a stop... it's a damn miracle there aren't more wrecks involving them. Perhaps I'm strange, but I would rather drive a pseudo sports car, nimble and quick enough to try to avoid an accident, rather than just trying to survive one.
No lie, the manager of the store had all employee login passwords to our AS/400 server changed to "swordfish" the same week the movie with the same title came out. Also, attached to the terminals in plain view is the entire login information for anyone to use. If that isn't sad enough, he gets paid more than us too.
A password technique I enjoy to throw off over the shoulder reading is to use capital and lowercase letters side by side that are hard to visibily distingush like "iIlL0oOxX", "0Oo" being my favorite.
As soon as the software hits the PC's it becomes much easier to crack, pirate and reverse engineer. And of course having two identical versions of the game on different media would seperate the market, everyone with a Dreamcast would be cut out of the Sega PC market unless they wanted to repurchase all their existing games on DVDs or CDs to play on their PC's.
Good luck on convincing either developers or users. Definitly a hoax.