We've already desided Bill Gates represents the ST:TNG borg so from what sifi do we attribute to Steve Mann? In Dr Who we have the Cybermen who are much like the Borg however the borg just plug you into a single hive mind you don't think for yourself. The Cybermen reprogram you so while you do think indupendently you think the same was as all the other cybermen and you don't question orders. Then there is the Darlek who just kill anything not like them.
I'd say Steve Mann is more like a Cyberpunk cyborg. Just some upgrades.
If you're using crypto, the FBI will just break into your house/office and backdoor your computer You know they'll forget to make a backdoor for Linux or MacOs.
Microsoft Photo Editor Response: 'It's a feature, not a bug. Honestly! We mean it this time!' Nope They'll say "Ok this time it's not a feature it's a bug. But our new compeating product dosen't have that bug". Microsoft dosen't own Photoshop.
There are more people than Echostar guilty of ripoff if this suit has merit. The "watch one thing while recording another" is also in consumer DVD recorder equipment such as the hard drive-based Panasonic DMR-E80H and DMR-100H units, and (IIRC) the Scientific Atlanta 8000 cable DVR
That and every consummer VHS and Beta video tape recorder on the market.
So back in 1995 or '96, when TiVo presumably filed for the patent, anybody with a videocard and a relatively low-powered PC could digitize TV while simultaneously playing back?
Back in my BBS Sysoping days my CoSysop Tanker demonstrated this to me on his brand new 386. That would be some time late 1980s. What he could not do was play back while he was recording presumably becouse of the speed of his computer wouldn't permit it. By 1995 96 computers have more than dubbled in speed so recording and playing back purely as an issue of brute force could be done on reasonably expensive hardware of the time. That hardware is by todays standards obsolete. TiVo may have a number of patents on the technology to make it possable to do on what was low cost hardware in 1995 those patents don't need to be infrenged to do a brute force version on what is by todays standards low end hardware.
First this started when personal computer makers were dropping off the market. The typical home computer was a simple 8 bit computer.
Commodore didn't just make it's money on home computers but 8 bit processors. The 6502. (The early incarnation the 6500 earned MOS a lawsute the setlment permitted the creation of the 6502 and some time after that Commodore would buy MOS)
The success of the Vic20 and 64 was entirely due to video games. The avrage user didn't know what to do with a computer so they were affrade to buy one but they did know they wanted to play video games and a video game computer was perfict. And then the avrage user would discover all the wonderful things you can do with a computer. That and they'd discover the slow simple Commodore 8 bit computers wouldn't do them very well.
With the PC dropping in price and the Introduction of the Macintosh as well as a growing industry of add on cards for the Apple II the avrage user was no longer willing to settle for a slow underpowered computer.
Commodore was not cought unsupprised by this.
The B series: A line of 8 bit computers (early rummors had them at 16 bits) aimed at small business.
The super pet II: A desktop Unix system presumably aimed at the growing techie market as well as the business market.
The Amiga: A computer aimmed at the business and home user.
Pure conjecture but it appears to me all three were aimmed at business applications while still aimming at a price tag the home users could afford.
The B series (Even at 16 bit) appeared to be primarly data entry and retreaval. The big enhancments were screen keyboard and memory. The 16 bit processor would have been more for handling large chunks of memory than for speed. A Commodore hard disk was introduced near the end of Commodores legacy suggesting at least there was some plans to make this available for the 8 bits. Maybe the B series was the main target for this?
The Super Pet II: This appears to be aimmed at the very high end. Commodore used the new 32 bit Z80 based processor and I'm guessing Commodore was betting on the multi-processor capabilitys to pay off. A sad number of defects in the chip made the Super pet II not as fast as it should have been. However had that not happend it seams likely Commodore would ship the super pet II with the ability to add more processors over time.
The target of this system is automated jobs. Running a BBS for example. A file server. Processing the data entered on an army of B series systems. Running a house power system. Running a security system. A home made weather station. There were a wide range of projects for the Commodore pet and 64 and it seams to me Commodore wanted to make the Super Pet II an ideal platform to produce such projects commertally.
Commodore didn't design the Amiga obveously. But it made a nice rounding off for Commodores new line of systems. By early rummors calling the Amiga "The Vic Mac" had the Amiga aimmed at the same market as the Macintosh. I'd guess this was to be the secretarys computer. User friendly so your secretary didn't need to be a computer expert as well as all other skills the job requires. High quality keyboard and video display. Large expandable memory base. Data entry. Speed so it was also a workhorse.
But... Commodores founder tended to keep the backers in the dark and in hard times this made the nervous. I think the large amount of product develupment at a time when Commodore was losing money didn't make a whole lot of sense. But it was commodores product line that was losing money. This was never explained so... Insert lawsute and Commodores founder loses control. So he left. The Super pet II was scrapped. The B series was halted in mid develupment to produce the C16 and 4+ and the the biggest mistake of all time the Amiga was marketed to the then non-existent video game market.
Bit that didn't kill Commodore. Soon came the new iCD device. A new entertainm
What we need is a non-proffit or simi-nonproffit iAA.
(Internet Atterny Asociation) Like the IRAA, MPAA, BSA and so on.
Hay IBM and Microsoft you lissening? Both IBM and Microsoft are known for having mega legal teams, both known for supporting causes they agree with and both support business and techno culture.
Microsoft is rabidly anti-spam and IBM wishes to endear itself to techno culture (mostly geek culture becouse they have proffited from it for decades)
And it's something SCO could object too (Way back in the day SCO had it's salesmen screening usenet posts for possable sales.) I mean SCO could object to there being an iAA.
(Yea I'm using the cute small i instead of the big I becouse let's face it an iAA would still be focused on issues that impacted corprations)
Still... AoL would support it. All the little ISPs would too. And this iAA could sue all the spammers for all the laws they break when spamming.
I don't mean the anti-spam laws themselfs.
I mean all the advertsing, internet and harrasment/slander laws they break.
Now if she was really cool she'd get someone to take some naughty shots of her in the police station If she was really smart she'd take those pictures on a blue screen and use the police station as a digital backdrop.
Counter evedence... They have nothing to show those pictures were athentic. (Porno is more the art of photo editing than it is the art of having sex on camra)
I noticed they refer to LOL and other short hand as e-mail speak. How very odd.
This stuff is used extensively in online chat and only occasionally shows up in e-mail. I might add it just as quickly finds itself in real life...
(The phrase 'BRB' was often spoken by chat users in the 1980's often with out realising it much to the dismay of off-line friends)
I seldom if ever see chat speak used in e-mail let alone the more annoying "31337".. But there is a whole vocabulary that it did enherent from the postal mail...
RSVP..
However about 90% of my e-mail uses phrases that come out of "Things you don't say when doing an advertisment" but then I've never had any respect for spam.
Metrosexual: You mean this woman isn't a metrosexual? Well... a person who likes to dress up... well that she most certanly is NOT. But I'd say she looks so much better and she saves on cloathing bills let alone laundry. But if this keeps up she'll be spending most of that in public nudity tickets. (It's a conspericy to sell cloaths)
Well.. if I want to be a metrosexual I'll have to get my bling bling. Umm yeah me fat bauld my friends would just LOL. Forget it.
MAC could mean MACintosh.. as in someone standing on a chair yelling the often used nick name for the populare computer platform made by Apple.
Or it could mean a MAC address as in one of those often used initals to refer to something and yet again the geek forgot to use seperating piriods.
Eather way the correct terminology would be
Macintosh (or Mac.. note the last two letters in lower case) and M.A.C. (Note the piriods and nobody actually dose that so who really gives a freak...)
It can also be short for Macaroni and chease.. Or slang for "eating", "getting into" and "Slamming on"
So quit Macen on each other... your Mac and chease is getting cold.
Frankly, you might as well ignore Mexicans when they bring up worthless items like this- they're still trying to take back the land they lost in the war.
Troll.
But mostly valid... Yeah call us USians or some other (sounds rather insulting when you say it in the United States slang we call english) term.
"Amercians" is short for "United States of America-ians" It's a logical extraction of a mouthful that dosen't make the speaker sound like an idiot.
USians however... US - The group of people I am part of. (It is also used to mean "The only people that matter") Used as a "nation" USians could litterally mean "The people of the only nation that matters". Pritty high handed even for the U.S.A. (note the piriods)
It's no wonder the rest of the world hates the United States. Outside of our really stupiddiplomatic policy people refer to the citizens of the United States by a phrase that in english is a global insult.
We don't say Yusah we say You Ehss Aey. Three letters for three words.
Outside that USians, USlanders, USers, USAers and any other combonation starting with the letters US in an effort to make a word out of the initals turns into a mouthful.
Anyway people seldomly refer to themselfs based on the contenent or landmass they come from but from the nation they are part of.
Go ahead and call the citzens of the United States of American USAlanders if you like... Hay try it in a French bar I wonder how long it'll take before they pick up the insult and slam a bottle of wine over your head (a cheap California brew not a fine French wine.. never waist the good stuff)
Nahhhh... I draw pritty spiff and can't spell worth anything. (If this is translatable thats becouse on the Internet people get really pissed when I post unreadable gibberish and kina poke me to make myself clearer..) Reading over jernals I've writen 20 years ago I say "My goddess that's bad" but I can still read it. I remember someone stealing one and not being able to make heads or tails of it. (Would tell my mother I'd left it on the kitchen table... what a lier... and that he recognised the bablings as a suisides cry for help. It was a poorly writen sifi novel)
So from this... The original author may have been just really bad and capable of translating his own psudo gibberish.
"This plant when made into a tea tasts spicy" and "This plant makes a nice warm tea" and "This plant makes me see nude nyphs.. gotta drink more of this"
"I've shown that a hoax is a feasible explanation," says Rugg, who works at Keele University, UK. "Now it's up to believers in a code to produce evidence to support their ideas."
RTFA yourself. Rugg himself admits he hasn't provided solid proof. But he believes what he has is enough to bring the book into academic doupt. I think he is being just a little arrogent.
Also spam creates jobs in the "answering and forwarding e-mail" job that was preveously given to the bosses kid and now belongs to a small army of interns.
Fax spam was actually a problem LONG before e-mail spam was an issue. (However e-mail spam dose predate fax spam that's annother issue)
Before the famous greencard spam some companys engadged in fax spam. Including SCO. Samford Walace was one of those people. But when fax spam was outlawed he switched to e-mail. However thsi method of marketting had already receaved a bad reputation from the green card spam and worse.
Samford however didn't care if he pissed people off. If you complainned to Samford directly about his spam he'd put you on a specal mailing list where he'd send a message ever hour on the hour and then every 30 minuts with the express purpous of flooding your e-mail box.
What samford did was harrasment.. in fax and later in e-mail. He set the standards for the spam and junk fax industrys even if he started nither. Chances are good if he had chousen a diffrent field (one he maybe knows something about as he never got that harrasing your target market is very stupid marketting) we'd probably not need laws banning junk fax or e-mail and the industry standards would actually respect the target markets fealings by implamenting and enforcing it's own industry standards that come short of banning. Such as no harvesting of e-mail addresses, no illegal products, no deceptive advertsing, honnor unsubscribe requests, always offer unsubscription forms, never sell unsubscriptions (as confermed spam lists).. or even spam lists (as there'd be no way to get off them if you sold the list)
I think this adatude dose exist but people will just as quickly steal closed as open. Decompile... or if you have a liccesn quietly violate the liccens. It happends and that is in effect what SCO clames IBM is pulling. Some might think stealing open source is more dangerous becouse there are more people who are familure with the codes unique behavure. However some might think stealing open source isn't theft at all. If I make a program for sale and you take some of my code for your own commertal product you have done as good as taken food from my mouth. That is money I won't be paid for work I have done. But when I've writen an open source program... THAT is a horse of a diffrent color.. Or is it? True enough I didn't write the code for money but to give to the public. However if my code is worth stealing it is likely I put a lot of work into that code and I did that work for a reason. Maybe I want to improve the Internet by creating a new Internet service or push up the minumum quality for commertal products. Maybe I want to encurage everyone to use this technology. Maybe it's just something cool to do or maybe I want to show off. What ever the reason it was NOT to make money for someone else to lazy to do the work himself. That is unless I realse the code as public domain then I don't give a care what happends. Becouse some code is purely to improve the state of the art and some code was intended to be included in other peoples commertal products so when I buy them they are just a little bit better than they would be.
But it's my hard work and I have every right to ask for something in return. Be it money, improve the state of the art, to show off or help people. Still people will commit theft and justify it.
One man was arrested when he tried donating stolen computers to a school. He thought becouse he was donating the computers to the schools that made stealing those computers ok.
No. Your the rule but to a very small degree. Most people don't care about how a car preforms.. Do you care how quickly your car will go from 0 to 60? If you get up to speed quickly it so matters not if it takes 2 micro seconds or 1 full second to reach the 25 MPH spead limit enforced becouse of the naborhood kids playing in the street.
But some people live on those nasty busy streets where if you don't reach 60 MPH near instantly you'll never get out of the driveway.
That's it for the car anolog. Your running a web browser, e-mail, simple stuff. Once your computer is fast enough those things work instantly and you never notice a slowdown.
But the computer dosen't always produce results inside a number of seconds. Some tasks take minuts, hours, days. Try recompiling your Linux kernel. It takes time (after you've downloaded the latest source) you have to wait and wait and wait and for those of us still doing things that make us wait and wait and wait speed becomes an issue. Speed of disk, speed or network, speed of ram, speed of processor. What ever it is that is making us wait and wait and wait is what we will look at.
Ever notice that website that seams to run slow? Must be populare. Why is it slow? Maybe they don't have enough bandwith... Or maybe the computer is slow only able to handle 4,000 people at once quickly and your not lucky 4,001... Ohh no... your user 8,000
Untill computers can outthink us humans they'll be to slow. Even then the computers themselfs will want to be faster if just to out think the Jones bots.
Spammers like to pretend they are lagit (they know they aren't) to this ends spammers tend to clame alignences. One spammer clammed Bill Gates was a backer not to long after an artical was published writen by Mr Gates himself condemming spam.
Annother spammer clammed to be part of a large consummer electronics company and got a yahoo listing accordingly.
AoL is often targeted for such clames after AoL sued spammers.
Spammers like to paint companys who are anti-spam as being pro-spam. (When the worst thing a person can do to you is clame your one of them you know that person is dishonnest)
Firefly had better ratings than X-Files did when it was on Fridays Why did they cancle it? If it's got the ratings they can't think the show is unpopulare.
Star Trek may be the show that died and went to heven but Firefly is the show they took out back and shot.
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We've already desided Bill Gates represents the ST:TNG borg so from what sifi do we attribute to Steve Mann?
In Dr Who we have the Cybermen who are much like the Borg however the borg just plug you into a single hive mind you don't think for yourself. The Cybermen reprogram you so while you do think indupendently you think the same was as all the other cybermen and you don't question orders.
Then there is the Darlek who just kill anything not like them.
I'd say Steve Mann is more like a Cyberpunk cyborg. Just some upgrades.
>I thought it was Gates of the Borg?
I think you've confused "favoret" and "most hated".
If you're using crypto, the FBI will just break into your house/office and backdoor your computer
You know they'll forget to make a backdoor for Linux or MacOs.
Microsoft Photo Editor Response:
'It's a feature, not a bug. Honestly! We mean it this time!'
Nope They'll say "Ok this time it's not a feature it's a bug.
But our new compeating product dosen't have that bug".
Microsoft dosen't own Photoshop.
There are more people than Echostar guilty of ripoff if this suit has merit. The "watch one thing while recording another" is also in consumer DVD recorder equipment such as the hard drive-based Panasonic DMR-E80H and DMR-100H units, and (IIRC) the Scientific Atlanta 8000 cable DVR
That and every consummer VHS and Beta video tape recorder on the market.
So back in 1995 or '96, when TiVo presumably filed for the patent, anybody with a videocard and a relatively low-powered PC could digitize TV while simultaneously playing back?
Back in my BBS Sysoping days my CoSysop Tanker demonstrated this to me on his brand new 386.
That would be some time late 1980s.
What he could not do was play back while he was recording presumably becouse of the speed of his computer wouldn't permit it.
By 1995 96 computers have more than dubbled in speed so recording and playing back purely as an issue of brute force could be done on reasonably expensive hardware of the time. That hardware is by todays standards obsolete.
TiVo may have a number of patents on the technology to make it possable to do on what was low cost hardware in 1995 those patents don't need to be infrenged to do a brute force version on what is by todays standards low end hardware.
First this started when personal computer makers were dropping off the market.
The typical home computer was a simple 8 bit computer.
Commodore didn't just make it's money on home computers but 8 bit processors. The 6502.
(The early incarnation the 6500 earned MOS a lawsute the setlment permitted the creation of the 6502 and some time after that Commodore would buy MOS)
The success of the Vic20 and 64 was entirely due to video games. The avrage user didn't know what to do with a computer so they were affrade to buy one but they did know they wanted to play video games and a video game computer was perfict.
And then the avrage user would discover all the wonderful things you can do with a computer. That and they'd discover the slow simple Commodore 8 bit computers wouldn't do them very well.
With the PC dropping in price and the Introduction of the Macintosh as well as a growing industry of add on cards for the Apple II the avrage user was no longer willing to settle for a slow underpowered computer.
Commodore was not cought unsupprised by this.
The B series: A line of 8 bit computers (early rummors had them at 16 bits) aimed at small business.
The super pet II: A desktop Unix system presumably aimed at the growing techie market as well as the business market.
The Amiga: A computer aimmed at the business and home user.
Pure conjecture but it appears to me all three were aimmed at business applications while still aimming at a price tag the home users could afford.
The B series (Even at 16 bit) appeared to be primarly data entry and retreaval. The big enhancments were screen keyboard and memory. The 16 bit processor would have been more for handling large chunks of memory than for speed.
A Commodore hard disk was introduced near the end of Commodores legacy suggesting at least there was some plans to make this available for the 8 bits. Maybe the B series was the main target for this?
The Super Pet II: This appears to be aimmed at the very high end.
Commodore used the new 32 bit Z80 based processor and I'm guessing Commodore was betting on the multi-processor capabilitys to pay off.
A sad number of defects in the chip made the Super pet II not as fast as it should have been.
However had that not happend it seams likely Commodore would ship the super pet II with the ability to add more processors over time.
The target of this system is automated jobs. Running a BBS for example. A file server. Processing the data entered on an army of B series systems. Running a house power system. Running a security system. A home made weather station.
There were a wide range of projects for the Commodore pet and 64 and it seams to me Commodore wanted to make the Super Pet II an ideal platform to produce such projects commertally.
Commodore didn't design the Amiga obveously. But it made a nice rounding off for Commodores new line of systems.
By early rummors calling the Amiga "The Vic Mac" had the Amiga aimmed at the same market as the Macintosh.
I'd guess this was to be the secretarys computer.
User friendly so your secretary didn't need to be a computer expert as well as all other skills the job requires.
High quality keyboard and video display. Large expandable memory base. Data entry.
Speed so it was also a workhorse.
But... Commodores founder tended to keep the backers in the dark and in hard times this made the nervous.
I think the large amount of product develupment at a time when Commodore was losing money didn't make a whole lot of sense.
But it was commodores product line that was losing money. This was never explained so...
Insert lawsute and Commodores founder loses control. So he left.
The Super pet II was scrapped. The B series was halted in mid develupment to produce the C16 and 4+ and the the biggest mistake of all time the Amiga was marketed to the then non-existent video game market.
Bit that didn't kill Commodore.
Soon came the new iCD device. A new entertainm
What we need is a non-proffit or simi-nonproffit iAA.
(Internet Atterny Asociation)
Like the IRAA, MPAA, BSA and so on.
Hay IBM and Microsoft you lissening?
Both IBM and Microsoft are known for having mega legal teams, both known for supporting causes they agree with and both support business and techno culture.
Microsoft is rabidly anti-spam and IBM wishes to endear itself to techno culture (mostly geek culture becouse they have proffited from it for decades)
And it's something SCO could object too
(Way back in the day SCO had it's salesmen screening usenet posts for possable sales.)
I mean SCO could object to there being an iAA.
(Yea I'm using the cute small i instead of the big I becouse let's face it an iAA would still be focused on issues that impacted corprations)
Still... AoL would support it. All the little ISPs would too.
And this iAA could sue all the spammers for all the laws they break when spamming.
I don't mean the anti-spam laws themselfs.
I mean all the advertsing, internet and harrasment/slander laws they break.
least, I think she learned something from the event.
I'd have hired her full time...
Now if she was really cool she'd get someone to take some naughty shots of her in the police station
If she was really smart she'd take those pictures on a blue screen and use the police station as a digital backdrop.
Counter evedence...
They have nothing to show those pictures were athentic.
(Porno is more the art of photo editing than it is the art of having sex on camra)
I noticed they refer to LOL and other short hand as e-mail speak.
How very odd.
This stuff is used extensively in online chat and only occasionally shows up in e-mail. I might add it just as quickly finds itself in real life...
(The phrase 'BRB' was often spoken by chat users in the 1980's often with out realising it much to the dismay of off-line friends)
I seldom if ever see chat speak used in e-mail let alone the more annoying "31337"..
But there is a whole vocabulary that it did enherent from the postal mail...
RSVP..
However about 90% of my e-mail uses phrases that come out of "Things you don't say when doing an advertisment" but then I've never had any respect for spam.
Metrosexual: You mean this woman isn't a metrosexual?
Well... a person who likes to dress up... well that she most certanly is NOT.
But I'd say she looks so much better and she saves on cloathing bills let alone laundry. But if this keeps up she'll be spending most of that in public nudity tickets.
(It's a conspericy to sell cloaths)
Well.. if I want to be a metrosexual I'll have to get my bling bling. Umm yeah me fat bauld my friends would just LOL. Forget it.
Maybe I could step in and save some arguing.
MAC could mean MACintosh.. as in someone standing on a chair yelling the often used nick name for the populare computer platform made by Apple.
Or it could mean a MAC address as in one of those often used initals to refer to something and yet again the geek forgot to use seperating piriods.
Eather way the correct terminology would be
Macintosh (or Mac.. note the last two letters in lower case)
and M.A.C. (Note the piriods and nobody actually dose that so who really gives a freak...)
It can also be short for Macaroni and chease..
Or slang for "eating", "getting into" and "Slamming on"
So quit Macen on each other... your Mac and chease is getting cold.
Frankly, you might as well ignore Mexicans when they bring up worthless items like this- they're still trying to take back the land they lost in the war.
Troll.
But mostly valid... Yeah call us USians or some other (sounds rather insulting when you say it in the United States slang we call english) term.
"Amercians" is short for "United States of America-ians" It's a logical extraction of a mouthful that dosen't make the speaker sound like an idiot.
USians however...
US - The group of people I am part of.
(It is also used to mean "The only people that matter")
Used as a "nation" USians could litterally mean "The people of the only nation that matters". Pritty high handed even for the U.S.A. (note the piriods)
It's no wonder the rest of the world hates the United States. Outside of our really stupid diplomatic policy people refer to the citizens of the United States by a phrase that in english is a global insult.
We don't say Yusah we say You Ehss Aey. Three letters for three words.
Outside that USians, USlanders, USers, USAers and any other combonation starting with the letters US in an effort to make a word out of the initals turns into a mouthful.
Anyway people seldomly refer to themselfs based on the contenent or landmass they come from but from the nation they are part of.
Go ahead and call the citzens of the United States of American USAlanders if you like...
Hay try it in a French bar I wonder how long it'll take before they pick up the insult and slam a bottle of wine over your head (a cheap California brew not a fine French wine.. never waist the good stuff)
Nahhhh...
I draw pritty spiff and can't spell worth anything.
(If this is translatable thats becouse on the Internet people get really pissed when I post unreadable gibberish and kina poke me to make myself clearer..)
Reading over jernals I've writen 20 years ago I say "My goddess that's bad" but I can still read it. I remember someone stealing one and not being able to make heads or tails of it.
(Would tell my mother I'd left it on the kitchen table... what a lier... and that he recognised the bablings as a suisides cry for help. It was a poorly writen sifi novel)
So from this...
The original author may have been just really bad and capable of translating his own psudo gibberish.
"This plant when made into a tea tasts spicy" and "This plant makes a nice warm tea" and "This plant makes me see nude nyphs.. gotta drink more of this"
"I've shown that a hoax is a feasible explanation," says Rugg, who works at Keele University, UK. "Now it's up to believers in a code to produce evidence to support their ideas."
RTFA yourself.
Rugg himself admits he hasn't provided solid proof.
But he believes what he has is enough to bring the book into academic doupt.
I think he is being just a little arrogent.
Also spam creates jobs in the "answering and forwarding e-mail" job that was preveously given to the bosses kid and now belongs to a small army of interns.
Interestingly enough to most Americans the web IS the Internet...
The UK concors the world the US gets credit while flooding it with obnoxous ads.
You laugh now, but when was the last time you saw a Flash ad for a Microsoft product on Archie?
Last time I used Archie was via a web interface with banner ads and it didn't have anything to do with Gopher.
It dosen't work "well enough"
You never really know if the fax got through.
Fax spam was actually a problem LONG before e-mail spam was an issue.
(However e-mail spam dose predate fax spam that's annother issue)
Before the famous greencard spam some companys engadged in fax spam. Including SCO.
Samford Walace was one of those people. But when fax spam was outlawed he switched to e-mail. However thsi method of marketting had already receaved a bad reputation from the green card spam and worse.
Samford however didn't care if he pissed people off.
If you complainned to Samford directly about his spam he'd put you on a specal mailing list where he'd send a message ever hour on the hour and then every 30 minuts with the express purpous of flooding your e-mail box.
What samford did was harrasment.. in fax and later in e-mail. He set the standards for the spam and junk fax industrys even if he started nither. Chances are good if he had chousen a diffrent field (one he maybe knows something about as he never got that harrasing your target market is very stupid marketting) we'd probably not need laws banning junk fax or e-mail and the industry standards would actually respect the target markets fealings by implamenting and enforcing it's own industry standards that come short of banning.
Such as no harvesting of e-mail addresses, no illegal products, no deceptive advertsing, honnor unsubscribe requests, always offer unsubscription forms, never sell unsubscriptions (as confermed spam lists).. or even spam lists (as there'd be no way to get off them if you sold the list)
I think this adatude dose exist but people will just as quickly steal closed as open.
Decompile... or if you have a liccesn quietly violate the liccens.
It happends and that is in effect what SCO clames IBM is pulling.
Some might think stealing open source is more dangerous becouse there are more people who are familure with the codes unique behavure.
However some might think stealing open source isn't theft at all.
If I make a program for sale and you take some of my code for your own commertal product you have done as good as taken food from my mouth. That is money I won't be paid for work I have done.
But when I've writen an open source program... THAT is a horse of a diffrent color.. Or is it?
True enough I didn't write the code for money but to give to the public. However if my code is worth stealing it is likely I put a lot of work into that code and I did that work for a reason.
Maybe I want to improve the Internet by creating a new Internet service or push up the minumum quality for commertal products.
Maybe I want to encurage everyone to use this technology.
Maybe it's just something cool to do or maybe I want to show off.
What ever the reason it was NOT to make money for someone else to lazy to do the work himself.
That is unless I realse the code as public domain then I don't give a care what happends.
Becouse some code is purely to improve the state of the art and some code was intended to be included in other peoples commertal products so when I buy them they are just a little bit better than they would be.
But it's my hard work and I have every right to ask for something in return. Be it money, improve the state of the art, to show off or help people.
Still people will commit theft and justify it.
One man was arrested when he tried donating stolen computers to a school.
He thought becouse he was donating the computers to the schools that made stealing those computers ok.
People do all kinds of things to justify theft.
>Am I just an exception?
No. Your the rule but to a very small degree.
Most people don't care about how a car preforms.. Do you care how quickly your car will go from 0 to 60? If you get up to speed quickly it so matters not if it takes 2 micro seconds or 1 full second to reach the 25 MPH spead limit enforced becouse of the naborhood kids playing in the street.
But some people live on those nasty busy streets where if you don't reach 60 MPH near instantly you'll never get out of the driveway.
That's it for the car anolog.
Your running a web browser, e-mail, simple stuff. Once your computer is fast enough those things work instantly and you never notice a slowdown.
But the computer dosen't always produce results inside a number of seconds. Some tasks take minuts, hours, days.
Try recompiling your Linux kernel. It takes time (after you've downloaded the latest source) you have to wait and wait and wait and for those of us still doing things that make us wait and wait and wait speed becomes an issue.
Speed of disk, speed or network, speed of ram, speed of processor. What ever it is that is making us wait and wait and wait is what we will look at.
Ever notice that website that seams to run slow?
Must be populare. Why is it slow?
Maybe they don't have enough bandwith...
Or maybe the computer is slow only able to handle 4,000 people at once quickly and your not lucky 4,001... Ohh no... your user 8,000
Untill computers can outthink us humans they'll be to slow. Even then the computers themselfs will want to be faster if just to out think the Jones bots.
Spammers like to pretend they are lagit (they know they aren't) to this ends spammers tend to clame alignences.
One spammer clammed Bill Gates was a backer not to long after an artical was published writen by Mr Gates himself condemming spam.
Annother spammer clammed to be part of a large consummer electronics company and got a yahoo listing accordingly.
AoL is often targeted for such clames after AoL sued spammers.
Spammers like to paint companys who are anti-spam as being pro-spam.
(When the worst thing a person can do to you is clame your one of them you know that person is dishonnest)
Happy birthday to you, You live in a zoo.
You look like a camale and you smell like one too.
Happy birthday and may you have few bugs as you reach maturity.
Firefly had better ratings than X-Files did when it was on Fridays
Why did they cancle it?
If it's got the ratings they can't think the show is unpopulare.
Star Trek may be the show that died and went to heven but Firefly is the show they took out back and shot.