It has been ages since I've follwed up [since I'am a] Linuxer (...)
Basically, I guess the question is how to make a strong case for WinAmp use. I already sing the praises of Firefox and recommend OpenOffice to folks who don't want/can't shell out $$ for MS Office. I recommend AVG as a free virus-scanner. Same with ZoneAlarm, Spybot S&D, and Ad-Aware. What winning argument do I use to say "use WinAmp instead of..." to Windows users who ask?
Why would you care ? It's not that there are no Windows users who would ask, or Windows users that "have to be taught"; it's rather about the basic curiosity that seems to be lacking: how can one not be interested in the hot operating systems from a hands-on point of view ?
Now before the flaming starts: yes, Windows is hot - have you had your crash today ? YMMV, but I've found my desktop.
This thing ended up on Business 2.0's list of "101 dumbest moments in business 2003" (position 77 or so, on the top ten are online.) It also stated that from the $ 0.18 paid by the primary client only $ 0.03 ended up in Pakistan - so even if jobs move overseas in this case, most of the money stays in the country.
It's funny how the digital divide kicks in: in some countries you cannot find decent infrastructure, whilst in others there is plenty of it available to the ones willing to bang out a buck for it.
Spain is, together with Italy and Greece, to be perceived equivalent to Mexico, only that it is slightly more important. Which means that the "fax" is still used on a daily basis - not that email wouldn't be available, it's basically a state-of-mind thingy.
To get it straight:
<accent intonation="italian">Ita-ly is da most developed cantry of North A-free-cah
</accent>
<accent intonation="austrian">Austria is da most developed country of se Bal-can</accent>
<accent intonation="spanecious">Spain is da most developed county of Mah-rocco</accent>
England: same as for Sweden, only that London fog provides a rational reason for turning on headlights all the time
Scottland: same as for England, only that wipers are at the center of attention
Germany: irrational behaviour detected by manipulating all available peripherical devices (lights, wipers, blinkers, roof where applicable etc.) should be ignored due to anxiety of not being able to get to a Biergarten rsn
U.S.A.: irrational behaviour detected by manipulating all available peripherical devices (lights, wipers, blinkers, roof where applicable etc.) should be ignored due to anxiety of not being able to get into a bar at all
Italy: Justa forgettabouta dis stupid stuff. We handall it hourselves, no problem!
Heck, where I come from not even regular (=non-digital) photos et al. are admitted as evidence in court - because they are too easily tampered with.
Basically only human intel is admitted as evidence (witnesses) - if you want to admit other evidence (such as footprints etc.) you show photos (as an illustration, not as the proof) of course, but _always_ backed up by witnesses (fellow officers, forensics guy) who could be called to testify under oath.
After having introduced the concept of "whitelists" for known senders the article continues:
In the case of strangers, the warranty mechanism is more suitable. Analogous to a standard bond mechanism, delivering email to an inbox requires an unknown sender to place a small pledge into escrow with a third party. In the case of screening, recipients determine the size of this bond, which they can dynamically adjust to their opportunity costs. The email is delivered only after the recipient receives suitable
confirmation that the bond has been posted. When the recipient opens the email, she may act solely at her discretion to seize the pledge. Taking no action releases the escrow after a period of time.
IMHO this means the end of mailing lists - what would prevent me from signing up (automatically, of course) to thousands of mailing lists and collecting all the bonds placed for messages posted through these lists ?
"Of course mailing list operators would first get your approval that you let through all their messages".
This is where it starts getting complicated. And complexity is exactly what I don't want with email - it is simple, and shall remain simple.
Therefore I am perfectly willing to put up with the current spam levels - hey, I can deal with those five to ten messages a day which pass through my Bayesian filter. On certain days I get more than that in my smail box.
For CDs especially do not:
2. Use a pen,pencil,or fine-tip marker to write on the disc.
When I was young, we didn't have those fancy automatic CD burners, we had to manually write to them. And if you made one error, you had to walk 20 miles through a blizzard to the "local" dealer.
Unfortunately the site's already/.ed, so I can't verify if it has remote access - I always wanted to ssh into a car and fire up my favourite text editor at 60 mph:-)
From the article: "RFID tags contain a small chip and an antenna, usually coiled, to broadcast a signal. They were originally attached to Allied planes in World War II to distinguish them from enemy aircraft.
I find this hard to believe. Maybe they mean that the mechanism is the same ? Can somebody please shed some light on this ?
Doesn't sound like a good plan to me, more like return to the stone age: a concept like "CD-labeling" has been around for 15 years, and it will be gone in 15 years.
How stupid is that? Sometimes the little guy deserves to be kicked out. It only takes a few assholes to ruin things for a lot of people, even if the assholes are "little guys".
Interesting argument. Let me lay out two independent thoughts:
As cited in the article she's doing it to make a living, not to make big bucks - completely understandable in her situation (and for everybody who's been in a similar situation). Heck, I wouldn't complain once if I could "do some good" deleting my daily dose of spam.
If you apply the same reasoning to people sharing files you're making a very strong case for the copyright holders
Taiwan produces about a third of the world's chips, more than 60 percent of its laptop computers and 70 percent of the mother boards, among other things. Personal-computer giants Dell and Hewlett-Packard buy most of their products in Taiwan and China.
Sounds similar to the substantial position of some western corporations to me, only that the producer
is a country
is a country the size of which is merely the sixth part of Kansas
is a country which has roughly ten times as many inhabitants as Kansas, which in turn is flatter than a pancake and thus should take precedence in producing wafers
On a side note: I would be grateful if one of our American friends could explain the fact that Taiwan is available through the CIA-factbook mentioned above, but cannot easily be found on the pulldown located on the main page.
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Actually SCO systems were used in some tanks. There were stories going around about patches etc being downloaded in the field in the early 90's.
That's probably this one. Way back in REM-time, with BBS's still going strong.
The control system for the cabin of the Boeing 777 also used to run on UnixWare.
Not anymore; but I never really understood what a browser has to do with an operating system.
Even if they weren't everybody's darling, they at least didn't manufacture any weapons.
It has been ages since I've follwed up [since I'am a] Linuxer (...)
Basically, I guess the question is how to make a strong case for WinAmp use. I already sing the praises of Firefox and recommend OpenOffice to folks who don't want/can't shell out $$ for MS Office. I recommend AVG as a free virus-scanner. Same with ZoneAlarm, Spybot S&D, and Ad-Aware. What winning argument do I use to say "use WinAmp instead of..." to Windows users who ask?
Why would you care ? It's not that there are no Windows users who would ask, or Windows users that "have to be taught"; it's rather about the basic curiosity that seems to be lacking: how can one not be interested in the hot operating systems from a hands-on point of view ?
Now before the flaming starts: yes, Windows is hot - have you had your crash today ? YMMV, but I've found my desktop.
This thing ended up on Business 2.0's list of "101 dumbest moments in business 2003" (position 77 or so, on the top ten are online.) It also stated that from the $ 0.18 paid by the primary client only $ 0.03 ended up in Pakistan - so even if jobs move overseas in this case, most of the money stays in the country.
It's not sales tax, it's VAT: Value Added Tax. Never understood that sales tax thing anyway...
It's funny how the digital divide kicks in: in some countries you cannot find decent infrastructure, whilst in others there is plenty of it available to the ones willing to bang out a buck for it.
Spain is, together with Italy and Greece, to be perceived equivalent to Mexico, only that it is slightly more important. Which means that the "fax" is still used on a daily basis - not that email wouldn't be available, it's basically a state-of-mind thingy.
To get it straight:
If you want a single 'client' at all locations, you probably want to use webmail.
That's why I loved Netscape 4.7x so much - it had roaming profiles. Whatever happened to that concept ?
Headlights being turned on indicating bad weather conditions could backfire in Sweden, where it is mandatory to have the lights turned on by default .
Some suggestions for localization:
A wonderful example of what happens when you pass draconian laws -- they come back to bite you in the ass no matter how "good" your intentions were.
Which awfully sounds like every law that is passed is good. Which of course holds in a democracy, but not a in republic.
Will anybody read this on March 11th, i.e. 28 days later ?
Where do you come from?
Switzerland.
I think it's paranoid to assume everything has been tampered with.
You remember all those nice pictures of the mobile WMD sites ? Were we the only ones not buying it ? ... oh wait, there's France and Germany too....
Heck, where I come from not even regular (=non-digital) photos et al. are admitted as evidence in court - because they are too easily tampered with.
Basically only human intel is admitted as evidence (witnesses) - if you want to admit other evidence (such as footprints etc.) you show photos (as an illustration, not as the proof) of course, but _always_ backed up by witnesses (fellow officers, forensics guy) who could be called to testify under oath.
What's happening with Bluetooth happened with wireless networks.
What happened with wireless networks happened with anonymous ftp servers.
What happened with anon ftp servers happened with telnet access (you remember the "guest" login provided by most hosts ?).
Every time a new technology is used there are some flaws with it. No big deal.
The new OS (...) will offer reduced functionality when compared with Windows XP. (...)
Development of the code is being done in the company's US headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
Lucky you who can enjoy backward development. Mortal beings like us have to stick up with the full functionality.
After having introduced the concept of "whitelists" for known senders the article continues:
In the case of strangers, the warranty mechanism is more suitable. Analogous to a standard bond mechanism, delivering email to an inbox requires an unknown sender to place a small pledge into escrow with a third party. In the case of screening, recipients determine the size of this bond, which they can dynamically adjust to their opportunity costs. The email is delivered only after the recipient receives suitable confirmation that the bond has been posted. When the recipient opens the email, she may act solely at her discretion to seize the pledge. Taking no action releases the escrow after a period of time.
IMHO this means the end of mailing lists - what would prevent me from signing up (automatically, of course) to thousands of mailing lists and collecting all the bonds placed for messages posted through these lists ?
"Of course mailing list operators would first get your approval that you let through all their messages".
This is where it starts getting complicated. And complexity is exactly what I don't want with email - it is simple, and shall remain simple.
Therefore I am perfectly willing to put up with the current spam levels - hey, I can deal with those five to ten messages a day which pass through my Bayesian filter. On certain days I get more than that in my smail box.
The "Secure Computing Initiative" approach with this bug is documented in the Knowledge Base:
This article discusses steps you can take to help protect yourself from spoofed Web sites. To summarize, these steps are: [...]
For CDs especially do not:
2. Use a pen,pencil,or fine-tip marker to write on the disc.
When I was young, we didn't have those fancy automatic CD burners, we had to manually write to them. And if you made one error, you had to walk 20 miles through a blizzard to the "local" dealer.
It would probably be:
/etc/init.d/engine start
bob%
engine: permission denied
bob%
Unfortunately the site's already /.ed, so I can't verify if it has remote access - I always wanted to ssh into a car and fire up my favourite text editor at 60 mph :-)
From the article: "RFID tags contain a small chip and an antenna, usually coiled, to broadcast a signal. They were originally attached to Allied planes in World War II to distinguish them from enemy aircraft.
I find this hard to believe. Maybe they mean that the mechanism is the same ? Can somebody please shed some light on this ?
IBM's Zurich Lab
Engineers, neutral by nature, do research in a neutral country.
This just has to produce an unbiased piece of evidence. Chances are, it'll produce more than one.
Doesn't sound like a good plan to me, more like return to the stone age: a concept like "CD-labeling" has been around for 15 years, and it will be gone in 15 years.
Why bother ?
Hey, you are rapping. Are you black or what ?
How stupid is that? Sometimes the little guy deserves to be kicked out. It only takes a few assholes to ruin things for a lot of people, even if the assholes are "little guys".
Interesting argument. Let me lay out two independent thoughts:
Bring on the flames....
From the article:
Sounds similar to the substantial position of some western corporations to me, only that the producer
On a side note: I would be grateful if one of our American friends could explain the fact that Taiwan is available through the CIA-factbook mentioned above, but cannot easily be found on the pulldown located on the main page.