I've encountered a site that played games with its prices before. When trying to book the lowest priced fares - the ones that entice you onto the site, every second mouse click resulted in a 500 error from the server. When trying to book a more expensive fare, everything went smoothly. The only way I could successfully book their low priced fares was to open two browser windows with the same session, and alternate between the steps for booking a high priced fare (aborting at the last minute) and the low priced one. Once I'd successfully booked the low priced fare, I ended up wondering whether I was going to turn up to the airport to discover that that flight did not actually exist.
However, having said that, it is quite possible to have a network configured for high availability such as that if you lose your local internet link traffic gets routed via your internal network out another internet link in another office. Frequently this office is in another country...
Even more frequently your "internal" link to the remote office is via VPN over your local link, so this isn't really an option. Redundant local links are more likely.
You obviously haven't been premium rate reverse charge SMS spammed. Sign up to sms.ac and see how long that lasts. As a bonus, you can give them your hotmail password so they can spam all your friends pretending to be you recommending their "services".
Not all of Bell Labs went to Lucent, only the hardware R&D and the name. AT&T kept most of the software R&D and renamed them AT&T Labs. In the 1990's, they went around buying other companies R&D facilities and expanding AT&T Labs, only to start closing them down mid 2000. I was working at their development lab in the UK until it was closed at the end of 2000, the research lab in Cambridge (where VNC hails from) followed a couple of years later.
I don't delete my cookies. I edit them. Far more disruptive to arsehole advertising companies that think they need to track my every movement.
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The reason spammers do it is that their message reaches people, enough of them to make it worthwhile.
I disagree. Spammers aren't advertising their own products, they're advertising the products of suckers who beleive that it is worthwhile to pay the spammers to send their spam into a void. Even if all the spam in the world was filtered with 100% effectiveness, there would still be greed fueled suckers who beleived that a spammer could bring them customers for their phony erection drugs and porn link sites.
No, I don't think you would get the same amount, I think the advertisers would SPEND the same amount, and since targetted ads have a better response rate, they'll be more expensive, so the result will be fewer ads.
See, here's the thing: this *is* the dark side of your industry. You're yelling "generating better results" as if that were some laudable goal.
It is a laudable goal. For any industry.
Better results for me would be fewer ads, in every medium.
And with targeted advertising, that's exactly what you'll get. Instead of a scattergun approach of spamming everyone with everything, advertisers will only be sending you an advert that they think you'll be interested in.
The article reads like an ad for Flash, which is hardly surprising since the guy works for Macromedia. He ran out of credibility for me when he said that Allaire invented the web based application in about his second paragraph. Personally I've never seen a Flash interface with a "UE" that I'd call good. Any serious application developed with Flash seems dog slow due to the amount of ActiveScript you need to write to fight against the fact even after all the marketing to the contrary that Macromedia has done in the last couple of years, Flash is still really just a vector animation format with other stuff bolted on.
I get the good ones printed. In a lab, on photographic paper that's supposed to be good for 100+ years. The rest I don't care that much about, but I have two copies on separate hard drives, and a several on CD/DVD backups. As I upgrade hardware, my photos all get copied over, there's about a Gig and a half of them now, I'm well within current storage technology. Digital Video on the other hand, I can only afford to keep long term on DVD and tape, as you're looking at 12Gb/hour there.
I'd say the editing problem is the biggest drawback with the direct to DVD cameras. DV is based on MJPEG, where every frame is a key frame, so its very easy for editing programs to splice clips together and layer on effects. MPEG2 removes redundant info (and some non-redundant info that you're not supposed to be able to notice) between frames, so unless you have a specially designed editing program that goes back and pieces together what it can of the missing info, you'll end up with weird artifacts around edits, and you'll be much more limited in the types of effects you can do. If you do have a specialised MPEG2 editor, then expect everything to take much longer to render.
Plus they're only mini DVDs, so probably good for 30 minutes at the most, though they'll be cheaper than DV tapes.
there may not be an easy way to control that from a Linux install.
Linux has better support for ACPI (the standard that lets you control what the lid button does, among other things) than Windows does. What I mean by better, is that you can specify whatever functionality you want. Windows just gives you a choice of Suspend, Hibernate and Nothing for the lid, and no choice for the power button, but on Linux you could for example power down the soundcard, wifi, display and video chip, leaving the CPU, firewire and hard-drive going. It might take a bit of work, since the standard distro's are only going to offer you the same functionality as Windows out of the box, but it is possible.
When I lived in a predominantly white middle-class area of London, I found even the corner shops had closed by the time I got home from work (after 7pm). I ended up having to buy a car, just so I could go shopping for essentials at the far from public transport ASDA not quite nearby.
Cool, thanks for the tip. I'm off on a trip to Japan later this year. I'll be sure to visit the patent office when I get back so I can steal all the inventions the Japanese have come up with in the last 5 years.
I was thinking another spam message may have been involved, to trigger the poisoning. I get dozens per day with tracking images that my client refuses to render.
Today I received a standard phishing email, except this one was different in one important way. The link to "please to update your details" went to http://www.paypal.com/ (not even any i18n tricks in there). I thought maybe the spammer had made a mistake, but after reading this, it all falls into place.
Thats a fairly typical MS compiler error. All you need to do is forget to define one compiler constant or include two files the wrong way around in a project that includes STL and you'll see it.
The first thing I tried on both those pages was enter my city, "London, UK", in the weather forecast box.
Google let me enter it, but said "Information is temporarily unavailable". Clicking on the link it leaves brings up a search page with all the other weather forecast sites out there, which have no problem finding a weather forecast for this major world city.
"Start" let me enter "Londo", then refused to accept any more input. I assumed they must do a substring search, though it was strange that there was no indication of that, so I pressed the Add button, and received the message "Zip code not found." So not only are they not handling non-US cities, they are excluding any future possibility of doing so.
Both these sites are irrelevant to me, though Google does look like it could improve, based on their previous expansion of services that are initially released as US only.
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It was real. I suspect that they raised the prices on that flight a few days later and let people book it.
I've encountered a site that played games with its prices before. When trying to book the lowest priced fares - the ones that entice you onto the site, every second mouse click resulted in a 500 error from the server. When trying to book a more expensive fare, everything went smoothly. The only way I could successfully book their low priced fares was to open two browser windows with the same session, and alternate between the steps for booking a high priced fare (aborting at the last minute) and the low priced one. Once I'd successfully booked the low priced fare, I ended up wondering whether I was going to turn up to the airport to discover that that flight did not actually exist.
Even more frequently your "internal" link to the remote office is via VPN over your local link, so this isn't really an option. Redundant local links are more likely.
You obviously haven't been premium rate reverse charge SMS spammed. Sign up to sms.ac and see how long that lasts. As a bonus, you can give them your hotmail password so they can spam all your friends pretending to be you recommending their "services".
It's official. Google DOES do evil.
August 2006: Zazzey
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August 2007: Golux
August ????: Profit
Not all of Bell Labs went to Lucent, only the hardware R&D and the name. AT&T kept most of the software R&D and renamed them AT&T Labs. In the 1990's, they went around buying other companies R&D facilities and expanding AT&T Labs, only to start closing them down mid 2000. I was working at their development lab in the UK until it was closed at the end of 2000, the research lab in Cambridge (where VNC hails from) followed a couple of years later.
I don't delete my cookies. I edit them. Far more disruptive to arsehole advertising companies that think they need to track my every movement.
I disagree. Spammers aren't advertising their own products, they're advertising the products of suckers who beleive that it is worthwhile to pay the spammers to send their spam into a void. Even if all the spam in the world was filtered with 100% effectiveness, there would still be greed fueled suckers who beleived that a spammer could bring them customers for their phony erection drugs and porn link sites.
No, I don't think you would get the same amount, I think the advertisers would SPEND the same amount, and since targetted ads have a better response rate, they'll be more expensive, so the result will be fewer ads.
It is a laudable goal. For any industry.
Better results for me would be fewer ads, in every medium.
And with targeted advertising, that's exactly what you'll get. Instead of a scattergun approach of spamming everyone with everything, advertisers will only be sending you an advert that they think you'll be interested in.
The article reads like an ad for Flash, which is hardly surprising since the guy works for Macromedia. He ran out of credibility for me when he said that Allaire invented the web based application in about his second paragraph. Personally I've never seen a Flash interface with a "UE" that I'd call good. Any serious application developed with Flash seems dog slow due to the amount of ActiveScript you need to write to fight against the fact even after all the marketing to the contrary that Macromedia has done in the last couple of years, Flash is still really just a vector animation format with other stuff bolted on.
I get the good ones printed. In a lab, on photographic paper that's supposed to be good for 100+ years. The rest I don't care that much about, but I have two copies on separate hard drives, and a several on CD/DVD backups. As I upgrade hardware, my photos all get copied over, there's about a Gig and a half of them now, I'm well within current storage technology. Digital Video on the other hand, I can only afford to keep long term on DVD and tape, as you're looking at 12Gb/hour there.
Woooooah there. Are you a Panasonic dealer? You sound like one.
I'd say the editing problem is the biggest drawback with the direct to DVD cameras. DV is based on MJPEG, where every frame is a key frame, so its very easy for editing programs to splice clips together and layer on effects. MPEG2 removes redundant info (and some non-redundant info that you're not supposed to be able to notice) between frames, so unless you have a specially designed editing program that goes back and pieces together what it can of the missing info, you'll end up with weird artifacts around edits, and you'll be much more limited in the types of effects you can do. If you do have a specialised MPEG2 editor, then expect everything to take much longer to render. Plus they're only mini DVDs, so probably good for 30 minutes at the most, though they'll be cheaper than DV tapes.
Few desktops have it as standard, but most laptops do.
I'd have thought so too. They need the capability in playback mode for transfering tape to PC, so why not use it in record mode as well?
Linux has better support for ACPI (the standard that lets you control what the lid button does, among other things) than Windows does. What I mean by better, is that you can specify whatever functionality you want. Windows just gives you a choice of Suspend, Hibernate and Nothing for the lid, and no choice for the power button, but on Linux you could for example power down the soundcard, wifi, display and video chip, leaving the CPU, firewire and hard-drive going. It might take a bit of work, since the standard distro's are only going to offer you the same functionality as Windows out of the box, but it is possible.
When I lived in a predominantly white middle-class area of London, I found even the corner shops had closed by the time I got home from work (after 7pm). I ended up having to buy a car, just so I could go shopping for essentials at the far from public transport ASDA not quite nearby.
Cool, thanks for the tip. I'm off on a trip to Japan later this year. I'll be sure to visit the patent office when I get back so I can steal all the inventions the Japanese have come up with in the last 5 years.
I was thinking another spam message may have been involved, to trigger the poisoning. I get dozens per day with tracking images that my client refuses to render.
Today I received a standard phishing email, except this one was different in one important way. The link to "please to update your details" went to http://www.paypal.com/ (not even any i18n tricks in there). I thought maybe the spammer had made a mistake, but after reading this, it all falls into place.
Thats a fairly typical MS compiler error. All you need to do is forget to define one compiler constant or include two files the wrong way around in a project that includes STL and you'll see it.
The first thing I tried on both those pages was enter my city, "London, UK", in the weather forecast box. Google let me enter it, but said "Information is temporarily unavailable". Clicking on the link it leaves brings up a search page with all the other weather forecast sites out there, which have no problem finding a weather forecast for this major world city. "Start" let me enter "Londo", then refused to accept any more input. I assumed they must do a substring search, though it was strange that there was no indication of that, so I pressed the Add button, and received the message "Zip code not found." So not only are they not handling non-US cities, they are excluding any future possibility of doing so. Both these sites are irrelevant to me, though Google does look like it could improve, based on their previous expansion of services that are initially released as US only.