This isn't about conforming. It's about doing something deliberately for the SOLE purpose of not allowing outlook express users to read the mail.
This is not a case of going with the lowest common denominator for compatability purposes, or refusing to do so. The changes made to the headers have no other purpose other than to screw with Outlook Express users
Although I definately agree this has neat hack value...
I have to ask. What purpose does this have other than making his mail unreadable on OE or WebTV?
"Forcing him to lock his mail into a subset of readers"... no.. this is the opposite.
He is deliberately excluding a subset of users.
For THAT matter..
Who really has a problem with OE? Outlook, yes, it's done many bad proprietary things that make it a pain in the ass. I *STILL* receive lots of attachments I can't read because they are proprietary to Outlook.
But Outlook Express seems to me to be fairly well behaved.
Of course.. I use Eudora on all MS platforms... because it makes keeping years worth of email in folders MUCH easier, and I like how it deals with attachments much better.
It was my impression they burned to death in the veritable blast furnace the capsule turned into.
As for design flaws.. the major flaw was the test itself. In space, they would have been okay.
Why?
They used a very high concentration of O2 in the air, and raised the pressure a few PSI above normal, to simulate the forces on the capsule?
The result? ALthough all forces were the same on the capsule, and yes, they would use the same o2 mix in space.. there was WAY, WAY, WAY more oxygen in there considering they were at a few PSI over 1 Atmosphere, rather than a few PSI over vacuum. That's a HUGE difference in the amount of O2 available to burn.
So what would have been a potentially minor smoldering in space turned into a blast furnace on the ground.
You are missing the point.
Frequency space is not like cpu cycles. They do not BELONG to anyone. They belong to EVERYONE.
It is a globally limited resource that we all have to share.
If I use a frequency for, say, 2 way radio communication for my security team. Do I care if the noise floor is raised a couple dB? Well.. if I think of it as MY frequency, yes, I do.
But as long as I can do what I licenced that frequency for, I SHOULDN'T.
Remember, a license to a frequency is a license to use it for certain things, not ownership of it.
The airwaves stil belong to the people.
UWB is an alternative to narrowband. Rather than limiting the exact frequencies each person can use, we can all use them all, and we can regulate who can use how much, for instance.. allowing others to take advantage of different wavelengths for different properties.
I mean, comeon... look what we have otherwise.. 2.4 Ghz ISM? Give me a break.. there is a REASON that nobody wants that band, it's dirty as hell compared to others. Microwave ovens, etc, etc.
Yes, that is true.
But, if the linux desktop ever achieves the level of integration that the sheeple want, and get, with windows.... then the same spyware will happen in linux. it's not immune.
Obviously, when all the software we use is written by us, for us, rather than by corporations to make money, it's not going to be spyware.
Regarding insurance... I don't think ebay should be doing it at all. They are not handling money. They shouldn't even be guaranteeing a $200 refund. Ebay is there to hold the auction, not to do anything else, they make that very clear
Secondly, regarding credit cards.
It's not in most cases, it's in ALL cases.
If you buy something with your credit card, and it is not delivered, you get your money back (Unless the merchant can prove they DID deliver it to you and you are lying)
For a game like Quake and it's cousins.. I'll pay for the game itself. I will not pay a fee to play online, because the company itself does not really provide much in the way of servers.
For a game like Everquest, Asheron's Call.. I can see paying the $10/month.. but the box price should be lowered. The game has no value if not played online.. so the server fees make sense.. HOWEVER
I take real issue with how Verant has made it a violation of acceptable use policies to sell items in the game for real cash. That's just plain wrong. We pay them to play.. they shouldn't tell us not to do this; it has nothing directly to do with the game.
In short... I think games that are played solely online should be nothing more than the cost of playing said game online.. perhaps a media fee (20 bucks or whatever) in the store to buy a kit to get set up, or a free download online (or hell, even a couple bucks to pay for bandwdith/severs)
I know I've received spam resumes before.
If someone thinks they will get work via resume spamming.. I guess that's their problem. I guess Spamford Wallace might hire them.
I just follow my policy as with all spam: Do nothing. Delete it. Don't click on links, don't ask to be removed, and don't waste time complaining to someone. I just delete it.
The ability to act over plain HTTP DOES have a use.
Now, I know one camp will say it's not necessary to wrap protocol within protocol, that it is a bad practice... but here's the thing.
To build really successful network apps for the mass market, you can no longer rely on network transparency.
What does that mean?
Back in the day, you could assume that every computer on the internet had an IP address, and could deal with unfiltered TCP/IP. That's how it was designed.
Nowadays.. we have NAT everywhere. Yes, NAT is a kludge to get more machines online.. but it's here to stay.
Example: I live in Costa Rica. The local cable company uses NAT. (yes, lame, I know).
My office also uses NAT.
Lots of home gateways use it.
And stuff like video, voice, remote desktops, VPN, etc will just plain not work over nat. Some things, I can hack up to work.. and I'm a real hacker type guy. What can my mom do? Nothing.
I'm all for MS paying more attention to security, separation of code and data, absolutely.
But bitching at them for SOAP, or for (not mentioned here) implementing raw sockets in XP is plain bunk... it's GOOD for them to support a full, flexible machine.
I had assumed that though like this was basically on the way out. Most ISPs will say "We support one computer. If you wanna rig something else up to use more, don't expect us to support it". That's sort of fair, mostly.
From my MUD days...money was never really a big deal in any mud I played. I'm sure some were different.. but mostly, money was a sort of nuisance. Aside from being handy for newbies, you used it to buy food and water, and the rest, you did nothing with.
The money supply is ever inreasing in EQ, by the sounds of it.
But the value of equipment is dropping faster than the amount of money in circulation.. so the net result is deflation. Your money will buy more stuff tomorrow than it did yesterday.
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Yes.. understood.
That doesn't change the point of the device...
To make a film shorter to fit in the right amount of time.
What if the yhave a 25 minute show they want to show in 24 minutes? Use this device.
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Keep in mind that this is not insinuating that EQ is more valuable than a country, or more viable.
EQ has a virtual economy, we can agree on that.
A fraction of players buy/sell virtual items/money for real world money.
This is wta they base the per-capita income on.
The fact is, if everyone in the game started selling things IRL, the value would probably drop to zero.
It's similar, in a way, to large shareholders of companies. Like.. say, Gates.
You have a value on paper, but you can't just sell it all and get cash.
This isn't about conforming. It's about doing something deliberately for the SOLE purpose of not allowing outlook express users to read the mail.
This is not a case of going with the lowest common denominator for compatability purposes, or refusing to do so. The changes made to the headers have no other purpose other than to screw with Outlook Express users
Because, this is about Outlook Express, NOT OUTLOOK.
Outlook & Outlook Express are *totally different* products.
Outlook Express is NOT just a 'light' version of outlook. THe name is even a bad idea.
Outlook, yes, has been responsible for many stupid, unreadable emails and attachments that still plague the earth.
Outlook Express, however, is probably MS best behaved, standards-compliant email reader.
Although I definately agree this has neat hack value...
I have to ask. What purpose does this have other than making his mail unreadable on OE or WebTV?
"Forcing him to lock his mail into a subset of readers"... no.. this is the opposite.
He is deliberately excluding a subset of users.
For THAT matter..
Who really has a problem with OE? Outlook, yes, it's done many bad proprietary things that make it a pain in the ass. I *STILL* receive lots of attachments I can't read because they are proprietary to Outlook.
But Outlook Express seems to me to be fairly well behaved.
Of course.. I use Eudora on all MS platforms... because it makes keeping years worth of email in folders MUCH easier, and I like how it deals with attachments much better.
The Slash summary is just misleading as usual.
These devices are used in order to compress a program into the right amount of time so you CAN put the required amount of commericals in.
It's not at *all* a way to 'scam' the consumer into watching more commercials.. just a way to 'shorten' a show so it fits your schedule.
Canadian stations use this too, you can bet on it.
In fact, it's very common.
You will see moves on TV that are "Time Compressed".. (they yanked frames to very slightly speed it up).
Radio does it.. songs play a wee bit faster in order to fit in more commerical time...
and so on, and so forth.
Yes. Still not the same thing.
I want something that does like RDP to X translation.
VNC or TightVNC are still just screenscrapers/window scrapers
But you missed the point.
Firstly, I know what pressure is.
Secondly.. no, there is not much difference between 14.7PSI and 16.7PSI (the 2PSI overpressure is to simulate the pressure in outer space.)
The DIFFERENCE is that they were trying to simulate real conditions in space.
But in space, yes, the cabin pressure would be 2PSI higher than outside. Which would make it.. 2PSI!
So. 2PSI of pure oxygen, or 16.7PSI.. which is more? You guessed it.
It would be really nice to see something that can display windows apps remotely via X (and via something more efficient than VNC).
Asphyxiated? That means suffocated.
It was my impression they burned to death in the veritable blast furnace the capsule turned into.
As for design flaws.. the major flaw was the test itself. In space, they would have been okay.
Why?
They used a very high concentration of O2 in the air, and raised the pressure a few PSI above normal, to simulate the forces on the capsule?
The result? ALthough all forces were the same on the capsule, and yes, they would use the same o2 mix in space.. there was WAY, WAY, WAY more oxygen in there considering they were at a few PSI over 1 Atmosphere, rather than a few PSI over vacuum. That's a HUGE difference in the amount of O2 available to burn.
So what would have been a potentially minor smoldering in space turned into a blast furnace on the ground.
This has always bugged me.
You can't refer to digital images via DPI. It just doens't translate. It's meaningless.
You can't measure data with a ruler.
So.. why do you say it's 72dpi?
You are missing the point.
Frequency space is not like cpu cycles. They do not BELONG to anyone. They belong to EVERYONE.
It is a globally limited resource that we all have to share.
If I use a frequency for, say, 2 way radio communication for my security team. Do I care if the noise floor is raised a couple dB? Well.. if I think of it as MY frequency, yes, I do.
But as long as I can do what I licenced that frequency for, I SHOULDN'T.
Remember, a license to a frequency is a license to use it for certain things, not ownership of it.
The airwaves stil belong to the people.
UWB is an alternative to narrowband. Rather than limiting the exact frequencies each person can use, we can all use them all, and we can regulate who can use how much, for instance.. allowing others to take advantage of different wavelengths for different properties.
I mean, comeon... look what we have otherwise.. 2.4 Ghz ISM? Give me a break.. there is a REASON that nobody wants that band, it's dirty as hell compared to others. Microwave ovens, etc, etc.
Yes, that is true.
But, if the linux desktop ever achieves the level of integration that the sheeple want, and get, with windows.... then the same spyware will happen in linux. it's not immune.
Obviously, when all the software we use is written by us, for us, rather than by corporations to make money, it's not going to be spyware.
Regarding insurance... I don't think ebay should be doing it at all. They are not handling money. They shouldn't even be guaranteeing a $200 refund. Ebay is there to hold the auction, not to do anything else, they make that very clear
Secondly, regarding credit cards.
It's not in most cases, it's in ALL cases.
If you buy something with your credit card, and it is not delivered, you get your money back (Unless the merchant can prove they DID deliver it to you and you are lying)
Well.. here's the thing.
For a game like Quake and it's cousins.. I'll pay for the game itself. I will not pay a fee to play online, because the company itself does not really provide much in the way of servers.
For a game like Everquest, Asheron's Call.. I can see paying the $10/month.. but the box price should be lowered. The game has no value if not played online.. so the server fees make sense.. HOWEVER
I take real issue with how Verant has made it a violation of acceptable use policies to sell items in the game for real cash. That's just plain wrong. We pay them to play.. they shouldn't tell us not to do this; it has nothing directly to do with the game.
In short... I think games that are played solely online should be nothing more than the cost of playing said game online.. perhaps a media fee (20 bucks or whatever) in the store to buy a kit to get set up, or a free download online (or hell, even a couple bucks to pay for bandwdith/severs)
There is a UWB article every couple of months. Nothing has changed in the last few years.
Yes, the technology exists.
No, it's not going to happen any time soon, for what should be obvious reasons.
I disagree. All language involves words 'ripped'from other languages. You do not keep the letters.
The ñ in piñata is not an accented letter.. it's just plain old ñ, a distinct letter in the Spanish alphabet.
piñata.. there is no ñ in english. It's not a letter in English. English students do not know how to pronounce ñ.
Though it may be acceptable to use it in print, I doubt it's accurate.
They do exist in other systems, or at least, they work on other systems.
My laptop has no problems suspending/hibernating linux.
The question here is about process hibernation, not the whole box.
These features are far from new in XP.
My old win95 laptop could suspend/hibernate.
My old DOS laptop before that could as well.
Just wondering about the technically proper grammar.
As we don't use accents in English...
Should an accent be used in Resume? If I remember my French classes... it's "Resumé" to indicate the sound of the last E.
I mean, I could take it to be spanish.. in which case 2 accents would be, impossible.... as the accent only indicates the accented syllable.
And where is the accent supposed to go, in french?
I know I've received spam resumes before.
If someone thinks they will get work via resume spamming.. I guess that's their problem. I guess Spamford Wallace might hire them.
I just follow my policy as with all spam: Do nothing. Delete it. Don't click on links, don't ask to be removed, and don't waste time complaining to someone. I just delete it.
The ability to act over plain HTTP DOES have a use.
Now, I know one camp will say it's not necessary to wrap protocol within protocol, that it is a bad practice... but here's the thing.
To build really successful network apps for the mass market, you can no longer rely on network transparency.
What does that mean?
Back in the day, you could assume that every computer on the internet had an IP address, and could deal with unfiltered TCP/IP. That's how it was designed.
Nowadays.. we have NAT everywhere. Yes, NAT is a kludge to get more machines online.. but it's here to stay.
Example: I live in Costa Rica. The local cable company uses NAT. (yes, lame, I know).
My office also uses NAT.
Lots of home gateways use it.
And stuff like video, voice, remote desktops, VPN, etc will just plain not work over nat. Some things, I can hack up to work.. and I'm a real hacker type guy. What can my mom do? Nothing.
I'm all for MS paying more attention to security, separation of code and data, absolutely.
But bitching at them for SOAP, or for (not mentioned here) implementing raw sockets in XP is plain bunk... it's GOOD for them to support a full, flexible machine.
I had assumed that though like this was basically on the way out. Most ISPs will say "We support one computer. If you wanna rig something else up to use more, don't expect us to support it". That's sort of fair, mostly.
This is creepy. I'd personally sue them.
From my MUD days...money was never really a big deal in any mud I played. I'm sure some were different.. but mostly, money was a sort of nuisance. Aside from being handy for newbies, you used it to buy food and water, and the rest, you did nothing with.
The money supply is ever inreasing in EQ, by the sounds of it.
But the value of equipment is dropping faster than the amount of money in circulation.. so the net result is deflation. Your money will buy more stuff tomorrow than it did yesterday.