This could easily drive the offering price down by far more than whatever it would take to buy SCO off.
Which makes me wonder... Why not just buy SCO off? Then make every member of senior management "Vice President of Somethingorother" at the Brazilian Google Headquarters.
One week after the last of them moved down there, they all mysteriously disappear/are kidnapped/are mistaken for terrorists and killed in the street.
Probably cost a lot less than buying a license, and you know that all business decisions are financial...
(ROFL, that worked! The lameness avoidance, that is. We'll have to wait and see if sending SCO to the top of the "Bunch of Assholes" search works... Right now they're not on the first page, either for no quotes or with quotes.)
As another responder mentioned, Speakeasy does that as well.
Somewhat OT, but I looked at Speakeasy's site after seeing the reference in the article, and saw a cool deal they have: if you can't currently get DSL, they'll sell you dial-up for $20 a month, and "bank" your payment against future DSL charges. Every month, your future DSL bill goes down $20. Slick.
I can''t imagine there is a big demand for a hotspot outside of my house.
Well, if everyone had a hotspot in their house then we'd have a "hands across America"-type setup, where everyone would be connected to everyone else, with the only expense being electricity.
How the performance of such a network would be, I don't know. But I really like the idea, cutting out the middleman -- and also, making disrupting the network extremely difficult. If your next-door neighbor's card stops working (or he reboots) your card will just automatically switch to your neighbor two houses down.
Although I'd imagine it would be more efficient to add code to the protocol such that it identifies the farthest point it can reach (while still being a strong signal) and uses that, instead of bouncing off every house.
I'm all for speaking out against parts of our government, but when you say "The US (as a whole) sucks! and I'm free to say that if I want." Aren't you denouncing the country that gives you such a right?
Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not
eat it?
At Citrix we had the "nipple pallette." (We were going from 16 to 256 colors and needed a good image to see how well we were doing it. Yeah, that's the ticket.)
What's the main reason players get disinterested in a game? Because they come across a level that they can't beat, and they get sick of the same ol' stuff over and over again.
I stopped playing Infocom's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" because I couldn't open the fucking door (about 1/2 hour into it, on the Vogon ship). Yes, if it was adaptive, I would have given that game more time.
Yep, but it takes a bit more effort to track those people down that it does to write flame-filled letters to the editor, I guess.
But then again, if I heard about a grassroots organization trying to go after the people doing the buying and selling of children for sex, I'd gladly pony up a couple bucks. Hopefully others would too; perhaps there's a business model in that? (I'm too busy and besides, my skills are tracking bugs, not humans -- so I won't start it, but if you hear of such a thing let me know.)
If the ISP does decide to do this, I would hope that they code up a quick applet that would, for instance, sit in your System Tray (enough customers use Windows, and for those that don't they can publish the API; or just do Windows, Mac, and Linux and you've pretty much got the bases covered).
All the user would have to do is single-click on the applet and it toggles state from, say, green to red (or back) -- green == popups are blocked; red == "the full Internet experience."
This would allow the ISP to save your bandwidth, but also give you the option to receive popups in case you need to (or want to see a funny popup at some site, or whatever).
How about just removing the punctuation and searching for strings?
sed "s/\.\,\_//" < some_email > punctuationless_email
(I would have put the rest of the punctuation in there but the lameness filter is appropriately named.) Could even remove the spaces...
And then as the spammers start misspelling words without punctuation, gather a list of commonly-used misspellings and start filtering on that.
Or, just do what I do: create a mondo filter in Mozilla with all the addresses of my friends, and move those into a "Friends" folder. (I also have folders for each mailing list I'm on.) Then my "Inbox" is more like a "Spambox." (And Mozilla's bayesian stuff cleans that out fairly quickly as well.)
Btw, love yer sig -- my brother's got 2 of them, and they sure do like to spread entropy!;-)
How can a theatre owner compete with someone selling bootleg copies for $1.00 a piece? These people are already willing to watch a crappy camera rip. I don't see how the theatre experience is really relevant at this point.
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As you know there will always be people willing to pay for an inferior product if it's considerably less.
So here's a solution, which they'll never go for: the MPAA members should produce low-quality rips of their movies and sell them for $1-$5 as downloads. At the same time the movie comes out in the theaters.
I'd pay it, just to avoid the half hour of commercials and the inability to hit pause.
Just wanted to thank you (already thanked parent for mentioning the same problem I'm having) -- I just upgraded the firmware (it was Sep 2002, now it's July 2003) so hopefully my slowdowns are a thing of the past. Thanks!
Thank you! I've been having the same problems -- it would drop from 80 KB/s to about 5 KB/s and I'd have to reboot the Linksys (BEFSR41) router.
From reading your post and one of the responses, I have upgraded my firmware and hopefully my problems are over. I hope you upgrade your firmware and have good results as well!
If an actual, living, breathing, real human being (and no, the pixelated Haitians in GTA:VC don't count) isn't harmed by some work of art or book or videogame or whatever, then the government doesn't have the right to tell me I can't see it, or restrict how it is available.
What's your definition of "harm"?
Me, I take it to mean, "If a [child isn't molested/Haitian killed/bunny stepped on] while making this media, it's okay." I completely disagree with the idea that media can cause harm by viewing/listening to/reading it.
I think it's both hilarious and sad that we're still focusing on terrorists wrt airplanes. They had their chance, and they used it to their great advantage. They'll come at us from a different angle now, knowing that they'll never again surprise us in that particular way.
I'm all for a plane avoiding mountains, and taking over when the pilot is incapacitated so the plane doesn't crash -- but I hate seeing articles about new technology being promoted with "it'll stop those nasty terrorists! Woohoo!"
I'm sure the (surviving) terrorists are ROFL at us scrambling to prevent them repeating something they know they'll never repeat. We need to harden our other systems -- water/electric supplies, who's driving the oil/gas tankers/trucks, etc.
I agree completely with you, and I remember those days: I loved OS/2, and was glad I could bring my old apps with me (at first).
However, the thing you're overlooking in the above is that, unlike OS/2, there is no one "company" behind Linux which Microsoft can EEE. If anything, Windows (and other Microsoft products) are currently in the process of being embraced and extended. (There's no need to extinguish them; consumers will vote with their wallets.)
So I personally don't think that having a compatibility layer will prove to be any part of Linux's downfall, if such is coming. I think that, on the contrary, it'll do Linux a lot of good by providing a stop-gap measure for people joining the open source community; by being able to come over at their own pace, it makes the transition smoother and less painful.
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I agree with the rest of what you said, but take note: SCO does not have any options, so no puts (or calls) -- just shorts.
Which makes me wonder... Why not just buy SCO off? Then make every member of senior management "Vice President of Somethingorother" at the Brazilian Google Headquarters.
One week after the last of them moved down there, they all mysteriously disappear/are kidnapped/are mistaken for terrorists and killed in the street.
Probably cost a lot less than buying a license, and you know that all business decisions are financial...
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Let's Bunch of Assholes
Try Bunch of Assholes
To Bunch of Assholes
Be Bunch of Assholes
Less Bunch of Assholes
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(ROFL, that worked! The lameness avoidance, that is. We'll have to wait and see if sending SCO to the top of the "Bunch of Assholes" search works... Right now they're not on the first page, either for no quotes or with quotes.)
Thanks!
Ha! Well, it makes perfect sense to use weed to distribute; I mean after all, that's what most musicians use to create music.
Could a kind soul who has already gotten it please make a torrent out of it? Thanks!
An acne train.
Xitram = zit tram, thank you, I'll be here all week.
(I know, I know, Double Puls Ungood...)
Somewhat OT, but I looked at Speakeasy's site after seeing the reference in the article, and saw a cool deal they have: if you can't currently get DSL, they'll sell you dial-up for $20 a month, and "bank" your payment against future DSL charges. Every month, your future DSL bill goes down $20. Slick.
Well, if everyone had a hotspot in their house then we'd have a "hands across America"-type setup, where everyone would be connected to everyone else, with the only expense being electricity.
How the performance of such a network would be, I don't know. But I really like the idea, cutting out the middleman -- and also, making disrupting the network extremely difficult. If your next-door neighbor's card stops working (or he reboots) your card will just automatically switch to your neighbor two houses down.
Although I'd imagine it would be more efficient to add code to the protocol such that it identifies the farthest point it can reach (while still being a strong signal) and uses that, instead of bouncing off every house.
Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it ?
At Citrix we had the "nipple pallette." (We were going from 16 to 256 colors and needed a good image to see how well we were doing it. Yeah, that's the ticket.)
I stopped playing Infocom's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" because I couldn't open the fucking door (about 1/2 hour into it, on the Vogon ship). Yes, if it was adaptive, I would have given that game more time.
And I worked at Infocom in high school!
Seriously? Nanotechnology.
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But then again, if I heard about a grassroots organization trying to go after the people doing the buying and selling of children for sex, I'd gladly pony up a couple bucks. Hopefully others would too; perhaps there's a business model in that? (I'm too busy and besides, my skills are tracking bugs, not humans -- so I won't start it, but if you hear of such a thing let me know.)
PS Yer a new friend. ;-)
All the user would have to do is single-click on the applet and it toggles state from, say, green to red (or back) -- green == popups are blocked; red == "the full Internet experience."
This would allow the ISP to save your bandwidth, but also give you the option to receive popups in case you need to (or want to see a funny popup at some site, or whatever).
(I would have put the rest of the punctuation in there but the lameness filter is appropriately named.) Could even remove the spaces...
And then as the spammers start misspelling words without punctuation, gather a list of commonly-used misspellings and start filtering on that.
Or, just do what I do: create a mondo filter in Mozilla with all the addresses of my friends, and move those into a "Friends" folder. (I also have folders for each mailing list I'm on.) Then my "Inbox" is more like a "Spambox." (And Mozilla's bayesian stuff cleans that out fairly quickly as well.)
Btw, love yer sig -- my brother's got 2 of them, and they sure do like to spread entropy! ;-)
So here's a solution, which they'll never go for: the MPAA members should produce low-quality rips of their movies and sell them for $1-$5 as downloads. At the same time the movie comes out in the theaters.
I'd pay it, just to avoid the half hour of commercials and the inability to hit pause.
Just wanted to thank you (already thanked parent for mentioning the same problem I'm having) -- I just upgraded the firmware (it was Sep 2002, now it's July 2003) so hopefully my slowdowns are a thing of the past. Thanks!
From reading your post and one of the responses, I have upgraded my firmware and hopefully my problems are over. I hope you upgrade your firmware and have good results as well!
What's your definition of "harm"?
Me, I take it to mean, "If a [child isn't molested/Haitian killed/bunny stepped on] while making this media, it's okay." I completely disagree with the idea that media can cause harm by viewing/listening to/reading it.
Sorry, I was ROFL at that scene, and I know what it means. Then again, look at me... ;-)
I'm so glad we finally got through Marvin's defenses!
I'm all for a plane avoiding mountains, and taking over when the pilot is incapacitated so the plane doesn't crash -- but I hate seeing articles about new technology being promoted with "it'll stop those nasty terrorists! Woohoo!"
I'm sure the (surviving) terrorists are ROFL at us scrambling to prevent them repeating something they know they'll never repeat. We need to harden our other systems -- water/electric supplies, who's driving the oil/gas tankers/trucks, etc.
However, the thing you're overlooking in the above is that, unlike OS/2, there is no one "company" behind Linux which Microsoft can EEE. If anything, Windows (and other Microsoft products) are currently in the process of being embraced and extended. (There's no need to extinguish them; consumers will vote with their wallets.)
So I personally don't think that having a compatibility layer will prove to be any part of Linux's downfall, if such is coming. I think that, on the contrary, it'll do Linux a lot of good by providing a stop-gap measure for people joining the open source community; by being able to come over at their own pace, it makes the transition smoother and less painful.
How's that for irony?