I would love to try OS X, but I'm not prepared to buy new hardware to do it. Linux (and other Unix varients) can run on my existing PC hardware, and I can try it for free. To try OS X I've got to shell out £1000 for a new machine first. Most people don't use OS X in the workplace, so they will never have a good reason to go out and buy it.
If Outlook Express users didn't insist on broadcasting the addresses of everyone they send an email to, rather than hiding everyone elses addresses by using BCC, an awful lot less of us will have our addresses on spam lists. I subscribe to a mailing list from my old school, and in conjunction with the "reply to all" option, everyone on the list had their address sent round the internet several times.
You can use the same approach (though not as efficiently as this) with an account such as Freeserve, which gives you an unlimited number of email addresses (whatever@myusername.freeserve.co.uk)which you can use in the same way. Whenever you find an address is comprimised, use your email client's filtering/rules/spam blocking facilities to block all e-mails to that address.
I have a hotmail account, the address of which I use whenever I have to give an address to someone I don't know/trust ("You must first register to download this article/driver/application....") I get at least 50 spam emails a day through this account, but none to my primary account which I use for friends and trusted websites (e.g. the BBC, Slashdot). At least with an HTML based e-mail system I only have to download the headers to see it is spam, rather than the whole message (HTML encoded with pictures of course!).
Some commericial laundries use RF tags (similar to those used to tag pets) in workwear to track them through their factories. This can quite easily be adapted to track each time the wearer of a garment goes to the toilet, has a coffee break, cigarette brake, moves from one area to another... , and this technology is mature and proven.
The claims of running Windows applications on their website have now been drastically scaled back. It now claims to be "Compatible with a few "bridge" Microsoft® Windows compatible applications to help users migrate to the new world." No indication of what they are! There are going to be some very disapointed Wal-Mart customers when they find they can't play their favourite games.
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I would love to try OS X, but I'm not prepared to buy new hardware to do it. Linux (and other Unix varients) can run on my existing PC hardware, and I can try it for free. To try OS X I've got to shell out £1000 for a new machine first. Most people don't use OS X in the workplace, so they will never have a good reason to go out and buy it.
If Outlook Express users didn't insist on broadcasting the addresses of everyone they send an email to, rather than hiding everyone elses addresses by using BCC, an awful lot less of us will have our addresses on spam lists. I subscribe to a mailing list from my old school, and in conjunction with the "reply to all" option, everyone on the list had their address sent round the internet several times.
You can use the same approach (though not as efficiently as this) with an account such as Freeserve, which gives you an unlimited number of email addresses (whatever@myusername.freeserve.co.uk)which you can use in the same way. Whenever you find an address is comprimised, use your email client's filtering/rules/spam blocking facilities to block all e-mails to that address.
I have a hotmail account, the address of which I use whenever I have to give an address to someone I don't know/trust ("You must first register to download this article/driver/application....") I get at least 50 spam emails a day through this account, but none to my primary account which I use for friends and trusted websites (e.g. the BBC, Slashdot). At least with an HTML based e-mail system I only have to download the headers to see it is spam, rather than the whole message (HTML encoded with pictures of course!).
The internet is obviously the centre of all things - www.w3.org gives you Microsoft and the Free Software Foundation only a few links apart
Some commericial laundries use RF tags (similar to those used to tag pets) in workwear to track them through their factories. This can quite easily be adapted to track each time the wearer of a garment goes to the toilet, has a coffee break, cigarette brake, moves from one area to another... , and this technology is mature and proven.
The claims of running Windows applications on their website have now been drastically scaled back. It now claims to be "Compatible with a few "bridge" Microsoft® Windows compatible applications to help users migrate to the new world." No indication of what they are! There are going to be some very disapointed Wal-Mart customers when they find they can't play their favourite games.