The point is, for that level of service, most people would gladly reveal their personal preferences, as long as they feel certain the information won't be misused. On the Internet, even more than in other areas of our lives, trust is the real currency. Squander what you have and you'll find out how hard it can be to get more.
I know that I have real privacy issues with many companies. That is why I use things like webmail and dummy browser proflies. If nothing else, if they scam the email address from the browser, they spam someone I don't like [joke!]
if you took a random poll, you would likely find that the list of companies that people trust is a bit shorter than the list of compnaies theat they do not trust.
Companies do not realize how precious the commodity of trust is. Squander it, and you will have people painting you as the devil decades later.
On certain sites Netscape will break, especially if you have cookie eaters, and block access in a proxy to the ad/spam servers. IE doesn't break as badly.
as a feature request, I would like a javascript on/off toggle button, just for those sites with obnoxious javascript.
of course, if I turn off the cookie eaters and other security, it tends to work better.
I can remember a situation with someone I know where a number of different programmers at different companies were in a race to develop widget X. What this guy did was to have it announced that they had already figured out how to do widget X. Of course, the competition said, "well they got it developed" and scaled back their own efforts.
Now Compaq has some nice designs, some of them almost Applesque.
But some of their marketing strikes me as being similar to the above, sort of trying intimidate the competition. This will probably work to some degree, although most folks here probably won't fall for it.
Well since many/most folks here do not access Usenet via Google . ..
Each post made outside of Google should have a signature file specifically prohibiting use by Google, specifying costs to be assessed for licensing by google, etc. (say $500 per incident) and in general prohibiting any "license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display the communication alone or as part of other works in any form, media, or technology whether now known or hereafter developed", and prohibiting any effort to "sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of sublicensees" without prior agreement of the original poster or their heirs.
To my mind the author is quite expert is seeing hidden meanings. It is obvious that he is also expert is seeing something that was not there.
In some literary situations, this is useful. There are times when it goes way to far, in that it sees and puts something there that was never there in the first place. It becomes a literary hallucination when the analyst insists on it even when there is solid evidence in the first place.
In technology circles, it is damning for someone to say that they never consulted the facts before issuing an opinion.
Now there is an artistic technique which deliberately puts in factors which are slightly incomplete and which allow an analyst to play connect the dots as the analyst sees fits.
It is accomplisdhed by putting in a rich enough texture at different levels that it becomes something of an Ink blot test for the analyst. The artist in this case does not have to say anything, but sets something up that suckers the analyst in. You can select elements that go together well for the effect of an artistic pun, etc. and let the analyst loose the forest for all the trees. You can sit back and watch the analyst go off into a maze of their own making with all of the little symbolisms that they bring into the situation.
It is a wonderful little technique that allows the artist a certain smile.
(Acually.. marketing people are fine as long as they are kept in there cage and feed twice a day!) =)
I think you may have put your finger on something. I have heard rumors that MS keeps their marketing people in a cage, and only feeds them once a day. This not only keeps them hungry but reduces the time devoted to independent thought.
I would probably take MS spokesmen more seriously if it didn't seem like you had to put on hip boots every time you got close to them.
I don't mind giving a company a second chance, but they used up theirs a long time ago. They are going to have to make a lot of changes before I give them a chance again.
There is a good set of pages covering the fact and fiction of the QWERTY keyboard here
The QWERTY keyboard, believe it or not, was present on the very first modern typewriter... the Sholes & Glidden, made by E. Remington & Sons (best
known for their guns) beginning in 1874. Data from the 1878 patent can be seen here, as well as other historical data.
(Of course there were many other designs going back more than 100 years before. but they didn't go anyplace)
funny enough, I have heard that the management of the company has changed substantially since those days. Alot of folks didn't want to follow that system for whatever reason, and there have been power plays in the company to force it to more traditional practices.
I guess more traditional practices include customer ripoffs.
"EARTHLINK NAMES COCA-COLA EXECUTIVE TO HEAD ITS MARKETING EFFORTS New executive vice president of marketing brings a wealth of experience to EarthLink"
The LA Times had this story about the ouster of one of the founders, under controversial circumstances.
The main purpose of corporations, as I under stand it (IANAL) is to be able to have enterprises where individuals can be protected from some of the personal liabilities. This has plusses nad minuses.
The problem is that corporations seem to be handfled mostly under civil law, and not under criminal law. I think that Corporations could be subject to similar legal penalties as individuals. How, where, and why is another issue.
Penalties certainly are the easy and sexy thing to discuss about this.You could have, for example:
Freezing of all assets for a set number of years. (Imagine this for someone like MS. Unable to do business for 5 years, all funds frozen)
Prohibited from conducting business (selling and distributing product) for a certain number of years
Fines
Split ups. such as in the MS case.
Crimes that could be contemplated or considered include
all normal crimes already on the books, including fraud, murder, etc.
crimes against other companies, including corporate rape, murder, assault, etc. of another company. or for example, a country or nation. The current rape of the rain forests come to mind here. along with various incidents of genocide, etc given the many examples from WWII
Although I am not quite knowledgable enough to know what to make of this comment:
Are you worried about GNOME?
No. We're way ahead of them. When GTK 2.0 is released sometime this year, they'll reach where we were, at version 1.4. QT 3 is going to come out later this year and that will take us even further.
Would anyone care to help fill in the details?
(just to clarify, I am not a partisan one way vs the other as far as KDE vs Gnome. I am encouraged just by the increasingly viable alternatives to the Big Bad Software Corp.)
I recall seeing pictures, etc of direct emmersion of running electronics in things like freon. Things like TVs, etc
If you want a very technical discussion the article here covers it nicely.
Simply put, full immersion would handle the problem because the fungus would not grow under those conditions. Of course, other factors may make this inconvenient.
OverClockers would likely find the magazine where the article comes from, Electronics Cooling, interesting to read as well.
That a system for intercepting communications exists, operating by means of cooperation proportionate to their capabilities among the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, is no longer in doubt. It has been established that this system is operated on the basis of the UK/USA Agreement. That its name is in fact ECHELON seems likely in view of the evidence, but this is a relatively minor detail. What is important is that its purpose is to intercept private and commercial communications, and not military communications. Analysis has revealed that the system cannot be nearly as extensive as some sections of the media have assumed.
So we can come to the conclusion that we only need to be a little paranoid when it comes to the US government?
The typical use in this case is taking art work down to the service bureau for professional printing, things like over sized posters.
I know one guy that has a devoted client list, 8O+ years old, expert only in Corel Draw - doing very well thank you. typically takes his work to a service bureau. Accessing anything over a network results in data overload and brain lockup for the guy.
Obviously, he is not a geek. Of course, a lot of small businesses are just like this.
Probably the best idea is to line your room with copper and ground it so that you make an inside out Faraday Cage. Barring that, you could line the room with aluminum foil.
The only problem is if it becomes a giant lightning rod. Especially if you are in the top floor of a tall apartment building.
There is going to be a lag on the obsolesence because of the lag in people getting high speed acess. In the cities high speed access is relatively common, but go further out, and you are back to zip drives, etc. for transfering large files. This is still a substantial bit of change, even if it is not something you find useful right now.
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The point is, for that level of service, most people would gladly reveal their personal preferences, as long as they feel certain the information won't be misused. On the Internet, even more than in other areas of our lives, trust is the real currency. Squander what you have and you'll find out how hard it can be to get more.
I know that I have real privacy issues with many companies. That is why I use things like webmail and dummy browser proflies. If nothing else, if they scam the email address from the browser, they spam someone I don't like [joke!]
if you took a random poll, you would likely find that the list of companies that people trust is a bit shorter than the list of compnaies theat they do not trust.
Companies do not realize how precious the commodity of trust is. Squander it, and you will have people painting you as the devil decades later.
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Here is the original web page as auto-translated to English
On another note, there are these stories previously seen on Slash
- Superconducting Power Cable in Detroit by michael on Sunday May 20, @08:21PM EST 221
- Nitrogen Semiconductors by timothy on Thursday May 10, @01:23PM EST 14
- High-Temperature Metal Superconductor Beckons by timothy on Monday February 26, @03:21PM EST 179
I note that the Detroit Story was just a week or two ago, but it is nice to see europeans getting a jump on the US.Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
as a feature request, I would like a javascript on/off toggle button, just for those sites with obnoxious javascript.
of course, if I turn off the cookie eaters and other security, it tends to work better.
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Now Compaq has some nice designs, some of them almost Applesque.
But some of their marketing strikes me as being similar to the above, sort of trying intimidate the competition. This will probably work to some degree, although most folks here probably won't fall for it.
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Each post made outside of Google should have a signature file specifically prohibiting use by Google, specifying costs to be assessed for licensing by google, etc. (say $500 per incident) and in general prohibiting any "license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display the communication alone or as part of other works in any form, media, or technology whether now known or hereafter developed", and prohibiting any effort to "sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of sublicensees" without prior agreement of the original poster or their heirs.
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In some literary situations, this is useful. There are times when it goes way to far, in that it sees and puts something there that was never there in the first place. It becomes a literary hallucination when the analyst insists on it even when there is solid evidence in the first place.
In technology circles, it is damning for someone to say that they never consulted the facts before issuing an opinion.
Now there is an artistic technique which deliberately puts in factors which are slightly incomplete and which allow an analyst to play connect the dots as the analyst sees fits.
It is accomplisdhed by putting in a rich enough texture at different levels that it becomes something of an Ink blot test for the analyst. The artist in this case does not have to say anything, but sets something up that suckers the analyst in. You can select elements that go together well for the effect of an artistic pun, etc. and let the analyst loose the forest for all the trees. You can sit back and watch the analyst go off into a maze of their own making with all of the little symbolisms that they bring into the situation.
It is a wonderful little technique that allows the artist a certain smile.
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
I think you may have put your finger on something. I have heard rumors that MS keeps their marketing people in a cage, and only feeds them once a day. This not only keeps them hungry but reduces the time devoted to independent thought.
I would probably take MS spokesmen more seriously if it didn't seem like you had to put on hip boots every time you got close to them.
I don't mind giving a company a second chance, but they used up theirs a long time ago. They are going to have to make a lot of changes before I give them a chance again.
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
The QWERTY keyboard, believe it or not, was present on the very first modern typewriter... the Sholes & Glidden, made by E. Remington & Sons (best known for their guns) beginning in 1874. Data from the 1878 patent can be seen here, as well as other historical data.
(Of course there were many other designs going back more than 100 years before. but they didn't go anyplace)
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I guess more traditional practices include customer ripoffs.
I note, for example, this 23 May 2001 Press Release, where Earthlink announced
"EARTHLINK NAMES COCA-COLA EXECUTIVE TO HEAD ITS MARKETING EFFORTS
New executive vice president of marketing brings a wealth of experience to EarthLink"
The LA Times had this story about the ouster of one of the founders, under controversial circumstances.
I figure it is bloody in there.
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The problem is that corporations seem to be handfled mostly under civil law, and not under criminal law. I think that Corporations could be subject to similar legal penalties as individuals. How, where, and why is another issue. Penalties certainly are the easy and sexy thing to discuss about this.You could have, for example:
- Freezing of all assets for a set number of years. (Imagine this for someone like MS. Unable to do business for 5 years, all funds frozen)
- Prohibited from conducting business (selling and distributing product) for a certain number of years
- Fines
- Split ups. such as in the MS case.
Crimes that could be contemplated or considered include- all normal crimes already on the books, including fraud, murder, etc.
- crimes against other companies, including corporate rape, murder, assault, etc. of another company. or for example, a country or nation. The current rape of the rain forests come to mind here. along with various incidents of genocide, etc given the many examples from WWII
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This brings us to the vision of AOL for Linux.
It also probably becomes the basis for the AOL Desktop and Office Suite for Linux, all in Chinese.
AOL could wind up being the biggest provider of systems and software on the planet.
If the Chinese do not declare war on the US over the insidious infiltration of the MS into chinese culture in the first place.
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Although I am not quite knowledgable enough to know what to make of this comment:
Would anyone care to help fill in the details?(just to clarify, I am not a partisan one way vs the other as far as KDE vs Gnome. I am encouraged just by the increasingly viable alternatives to the Big Bad Software Corp.)
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If you want a very technical discussion the article here covers it nicely.
Simply put, full immersion would handle the problem because the fungus would not grow under those conditions. Of course, other factors may make this inconvenient.
OverClockers would likely find the magazine where the article comes from, Electronics Cooling, interesting to read as well.
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This is fascinating. Looks like a promo site for the movie
I anticipate that something like this may very well happen, but likely in the next 100 years or so, not the next 200.
Technology tends to advance faster than the ability of humans to predict, and the social sciences do not advance at all.
Depending on how things go, Society might end up being ruled by robots. but it is hard to say from here.
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Wonderful stuff to pick through.
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They get Aol 6 incorporated into XP.
Then the AOL 6.1 upgrade option has "Do you want to upgrade to browser to the superior performance of the Latest Browser?" with the options:
"yes I want to upgrade"
"No thanks, I'm happy with inferior performance"
In other words, borrow a page from the MS upgrade language handbook.
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So we can come to the conclusion that we only need to be a little paranoid when it comes to the US government?
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"Ackk! We've been infected! get those nasty Linux germs out of here! AcKK!"
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Some days, it must be a pain for Transmeta to have such a famous employee.
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Also, just to dispel any doubts, they are removing any mistaken appearance of democracy by pulling the plug on dissenting opinions.
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For all I know it was a bournoulli drive, or something like that.
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Actually, since MS makes most of the systems used to do the actual copying, why don't they do something sensible and sue Microsoft?
Or is it easier to sue somebody who doesn't have a lot of money?
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I know one guy that has a devoted client list, 8O+ years old, expert only in Corel Draw - doing very well thank you. typically takes his work to a service bureau. Accessing anything over a network results in data overload and brain lockup for the guy.
Obviously, he is not a geek. Of course, a lot of small businesses are just like this.
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The only problem is if it becomes a giant lightning rod. Especially if you are in the top floor of a tall apartment building.
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