I have always had utterly horrible handwriting. It is pretty much due to the fact that I think far faster than I can write, and attempting to catch up with the writing hand results in crabby, unreadable cursive lettering that I can't decipher later.
Working with the Palm's character recognition has changed my handwriting somewhat-
One, I write larger letters.
Two, I write more slowly.
Three, I rely on block letters more often.
All of these put together generally result in handwriting that is readable by others simply because I've taken the time to make it so instead of screaming ahead. Things which I've written (undrafted) on the Palm are also slightly better constructed than a good deal of my keyboard-written things, simply because I'm thinking about it more.
If I were to take quick notes I'd probably rely on a keyboard of some sort, as Graffiti does slow me down to a level that can't be used to take live notes (although I've been experimenting with shorthand, and this might make things easier in general.)
Hey, the History Channel is pretty good. So is the Discovery Channel. Fuck, if I could pay $8 a month to get just those and maybe the Cartoon Network, I would. The net gain for the satellite company would be $8 a month, because currently they're down to $0 from a high of $40 when my satellite dish was actually turned on.
The main difficulty in running an ISP in China is the fact that you are renting bandwidth from the telecom company, who then is also competing with you to provide the same services you do to users. A couple of years ago, there were quite a few Chinese ISPs (mostly in Beijing, actually) but they were more or less choked out of the market by increasing telco charges.
So, you don't see many independent ISPs, and those that are usually run ancillary services like internet cafes.
It's the possibility of being shut out of a giant charge into a digital format by the recording industry at large. If you, as a hardware company, sink a shitload of money into making MP3 players or whatever, and suddenly everyone starts using formats that are explicitly denied the ability to play on your device, you are a bit out of luck.
This is highly unlikely, however, as anyone who follows this stuff knows. For once, the market is leading the producers in the choice of format they use, and certainly for a little while, CDs and MP3 are going to be "it".
Think about it, how hard is it, really, for an ISP to transparently block a site? They could just expunge it from their domain records or mis-point the domain name to something inactive, and cause the real site to be unreachable by their customers... and no one would probably ever notice. After all, isn't it true that most people never try again once they've attempted to reach an Internet site that's down or inactive?
What you do is this- wait by the entrance of your favorite store with an activated tag, until five or six people get ready to leave. Then, walk through the scanner at the same time as they do, and watch them all stampede back in the other direction.
It's advisable to be artistic and build the active part of the tag into an attractive postmodern key-fob, and then wave it around when questioned.
Hook the chip up to a larger processing unit, and use your own mini-scanner (easily installed in a glove.) Then read the tags of those passing by, and items you pass in stores- and copy them to your own.
The thing about a gossip website is that it's so... detached.
The traditional "underground" newspaper has a tactile, in your face, get suspended and tell the tale while on your sponsored vacation feel to it.
Unless it's aggressively marketed, this sort of thing usually doesn't get far... of course, it usually means you're the first to get called to the administrative office when some Columbine-ish thing happens five states away.
One of the few lovely things about high school is that you get a beautiful concentration of petty tyrants and no accountability on your nose-tweaking. It's this combination that's gotten many a person through to his graduation day.
All things that the record companies could provide.
All things that people are likely to pay for.
But the recording industry can't compete in the market- it simply tries to sue people out of existence.
So much for free-market and big business ideals being compatible...
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
The loveliest thing about this thread...
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...is how it's turned into a general AT&T hatefest. This isn't to say that AT&T doesn't deserve a good drubbing- but it all seems terribly offtopic.
On the other hand, there's so little information to actually go on...
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
I think it's time to re-examine the article.
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The article wasn't exactly clear on how AT&T wants to do this, and I think if you read between the lines a little there are indications that this concept which AT&T wants to try is nothing new.
A quote from the article:
"AT&T spokesman Ritch Blasi said the program is not a new one, and is currently offered as PocketNet service on the company's wireless phones. Under PocketNet, retailers pay for highly visible spots each time someone logs onto the Internet with their wireless phone."
What I think AT&T means by this announcement is that AT&T will use the "portal page" that, IIRC, is locked into the browsers they give to their customers (by use of a standard branding kit from the browser's manufacturer.) My guess is that they are going to begin having openings for retailers to advertise directly to AT&T's users, and then take a cut of the profits in an affiliate-style program.
In other words, this is much ado about nothing, until we hear more about AT&T's specific plans, which should be forthcoming if this is anything remarkable.
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It would be just like that movie "Fortress".
Nobody should ever move, anyway.
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
Not since I had a pentium-90 have I had them. And every device I've ever owned reads my CDRs.
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
I have always had utterly horrible handwriting. It is pretty much due to the fact that I think far faster than I can write, and attempting to catch up with the writing hand results in crabby, unreadable cursive lettering that I can't decipher later.
Working with the Palm's character recognition has changed my handwriting somewhat-
One, I write larger letters.
Two, I write more slowly.
Three, I rely on block letters more often.
All of these put together generally result in handwriting that is readable by others simply because I've taken the time to make it so instead of screaming ahead. Things which I've written (undrafted) on the Palm are also slightly better constructed than a good deal of my keyboard-written things, simply because I'm thinking about it more.
If I were to take quick notes I'd probably rely on a keyboard of some sort, as Graffiti does slow me down to a level that can't be used to take live notes (although I've been experimenting with shorthand, and this might make things easier in general.)
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
I spent much of this January playing dopewars. It saved my sanity during a very slow trade show.
Ha ha...
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
Hey, the History Channel is pretty good. So is the Discovery Channel. Fuck, if I could pay $8 a month to get just those and maybe the Cartoon Network, I would. The net gain for the satellite company would be $8 a month, because currently they're down to $0 from a high of $40 when my satellite dish was actually turned on.
Oh well.
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
My first thought was "good thing he has the super shotgun out, to kill the chainsaw ogre."
ahhh, memories...
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
The main difficulty in running an ISP in China is the fact that you are renting bandwidth from the telecom company, who then is also competing with you to provide the same services you do to users. A couple of years ago, there were quite a few Chinese ISPs (mostly in Beijing, actually) but they were more or less choked out of the market by increasing telco charges.
So, you don't see many independent ISPs, and those that are usually run ancillary services like internet cafes.
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
It's the possibility of being shut out of a giant charge into a digital format by the recording industry at large. If you, as a hardware company, sink a shitload of money into making MP3 players or whatever, and suddenly everyone starts using formats that are explicitly denied the ability to play on your device, you are a bit out of luck.
This is highly unlikely, however, as anyone who follows this stuff knows. For once, the market is leading the producers in the choice of format they use, and certainly for a little while, CDs and MP3 are going to be "it".
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
Hell, I just got my voodoo3 back from a warranty repair yesterday.
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
...get the new version of winamp. It supports id3v2, which allows you to stick as many characters as you damn well want into any of the fields.
:P
Then get cracking, you'll be done in a century
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
News is only part of the objective.
Stuff that matters is the other half of the sentence, and judging by the 345235235 comments on this issue I suppose it matters to *someone*.
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
That is the best email address ever.
Really.
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
Think about it, how hard is it, really, for an ISP to transparently block a site? They could just expunge it from their domain records or mis-point the domain name to something inactive, and cause the real site to be unreachable by their customers... and no one would probably ever notice. After all, isn't it true that most people never try again once they've attempted to reach an Internet site that's down or inactive?
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
What you do is this- wait by the entrance of your favorite store with an activated tag, until five or six people get ready to leave. Then, walk through the scanner at the same time as they do, and watch them all stampede back in the other direction.
It's advisable to be artistic and build the active part of the tag into an attractive postmodern key-fob, and then wave it around when questioned.
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
Hook the chip up to a larger processing unit, and use your own mini-scanner (easily installed in a glove.) Then read the tags of those passing by, and items you pass in stores- and copy them to your own.
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
The thing about a gossip website is that it's so... detached.
The traditional "underground" newspaper has a tactile, in your face, get suspended and tell the tale while on your sponsored vacation feel to it.
Unless it's aggressively marketed, this sort of thing usually doesn't get far... of course, it usually means you're the first to get called to the administrative office when some Columbine-ish thing happens five states away.
One of the few lovely things about high school is that you get a beautiful concentration of petty tyrants and no accountability on your nose-tweaking. It's this combination that's gotten many a person through to his graduation day.
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
And since there are fewer of them, they should have to do it all the time... that sort of conviction would be necessary to sway me in that direction.
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
I have no problem with Carnivore if two things happen.
1) Carnivore is installed *everywhere*. Even at all government offices.
2) Anyone can access its records, or begin a trace attempt.
Ho ho.
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
I wonder, though, if it was such a good idea for him to post on a private @Home forum the details of this information?
@Home's DMCA threats are obviously silly- I doubt all this would hold up in court.
Is it just me, or do most C&D letters sent involving DMCA issues tend to be like warning shots from a popgun?
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
I prefer to blame things on "general fuck-up propensity". I'm usually right, too.
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
All things that Napster lacks.
All things that the record companies could provide.
All things that people are likely to pay for.
But the recording industry can't compete in the market- it simply tries to sue people out of existence.
So much for free-market and big business ideals being compatible...
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
...is how it's turned into a general AT&T hatefest. This isn't to say that AT&T doesn't deserve a good drubbing- but it all seems terribly offtopic.
On the other hand, there's so little information to actually go on...
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
The article wasn't exactly clear on how AT&T wants to do this, and I think if you read between the lines a little there are indications that this concept which AT&T wants to try is nothing new.
A quote from the article:
"AT&T spokesman Ritch Blasi said the program is not a new one, and is currently offered as PocketNet service on the company's wireless phones. Under PocketNet, retailers pay for highly visible spots each time someone logs onto the Internet with their wireless phone."
What I think AT&T means by this announcement is that AT&T will use the "portal page" that, IIRC, is locked into the browsers they give to their customers (by use of a standard branding kit from the browser's manufacturer.) My guess is that they are going to begin having openings for retailers to advertise directly to AT&T's users, and then take a cut of the profits in an affiliate-style program.
In other words, this is much ado about nothing, until we hear more about AT&T's specific plans, which should be forthcoming if this is anything remarkable.
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
Business as usual will take care of that side of the problem, especially when done by Russians and Chinese.
--Perianwyr Stormcrow
ZKS Freedom already has a network of servers designed to obfuscate routes- it would probably be not terribly hard for them to encrypt everything.
Time for a comment to the developers, I guess!
--Perianwyr Stormcrow