We have these in Philly already, and they're really eye-catching. You might not try to look out the window, but when suddenly there's a rather bright full-motion advertisement in it, you look.
As for the incentive, of course there's the initial novelty, but it's also more interesting than reading the 'Injured? Call 1-800-BIG-MONEY!' ad that's by the subway car's interior roof, or the budweiser ad that's on the subway car's interior wall.
Personally, I like the ads, and if I don't want to see them, that's why God invented the concept of not looking.
You can get 4.6.1, you just wouldn't want to, because then you'd have to apply 11 patches to get it to 4.6.1-p11, then one more to get it to 4.6.2. They didn't make a big public announcement because of the number of major issues that came up right after it was created (OpenSSL and such) and because of some bugs that turned out to be not quite fixed.
Yeah, and I loved both of the pieces of commercial software that ran on it!
BeOS didn't take off because the software wasn't there. Unless you were writing your own interactive graphics utilities, there was no reason to use it.
This is valuable data, being collected in a relatively unobtrusive way, with an opt-out program that came with your pass (at least on the east cost, EZpass gives you a mylar bag when you sign up, in case you don't want to use it or are paranoid). Let's be glad that for once, the government is doing something in a technologically intelligent, and efficient manner.
Okay, so what they're doing is gathering traffic data, which they destroy after 24 hours, leaving only aggregate data with which they can analyze traffic flow and such. This isn't exactly an invasion of privacy.
To those people who think that by not having a little pass on, nobody can track you, I point you the toll highways where they just electronically read your license plate in order to charge you your toll, instead of bothering with an electronic tag, or the occasional murder case where they manage to find photos of the suspect paying a toll somewhere, despite the fact that the suspect wasn't using an electronic tracking tag.
well, they implemented a system called 'fuck hbo', where you could record something off of hbo, then send it to your friend who doesn't have hbo, and they implemented a system called 'sponsorfuck', which automatically skips commercials.
oh, you meant unethical behaviour that doesn't benefit you.
The obvious first reaction to this is that his firing was unethical and incredibly sleazy, but is that really true?
The loans given to the board members were completely legal and were not hidden in the financial statements. Some investors came to the CEO and asked about them.
He then requested that the three board members, who had taken out legal loans, repay them immediately (instead of at their due date, of June 2003) or to resign.
Now which of these actions is worse, really? Allowing somebody to take out a loan, then demanding they either accept a major change in the terms of the loan or they resign. Or to oust the guy who just renegged on a perfectly legal deal that he had previously agreed to.
I hate boardroom shenanigans as much as the next guy, but there's no story here.
I use tagged email addresses to make it easy to tell who is selling my info. I'll put things like 'slashdot.org@mydomain.com' in for my slashdot email address, and 'yahoo.com@mydomain.com' for yahoo, and so on.
This system makes it relatively easy for me to receive email from people who don't abuse the fact that they know my address, and extremely easy to filter the spammers to/dev/null, or better yet, set them up as spamassassin spamtraps, which will make it so incoming mail messages get automatically added to things like Vipul's Razor before they delete them.
Okay, pretend for a second (just for a second) that you're not a total computer geek who loves playing with his computer. I know that's a stretch, but you can do it, I have faith.
For less than $400 you can buy a box that you hook to your receiver, you put games in and they work. They display on that nice big TV you already own, and you invite your friends over to drink some beers and play Blitz, and you all laugh your asses off as you take turns beating hookers with a bat in GTA3. When you get a new game, the only thing you do is put the disc in, and it works. You invite some friends over, trash talk each other, have a great time and in short, it's fucking awesome.
Compare that to the PC solution, and remember that non-computer geeks don't build PCs out of whitebox parts that they bought off of pricewatch. They go to dell. They pick a middle of the road model from the Dimension line and it says it's $989. Then they upgrade to Microsoft Office, splurge on a 21" monitor and a cd burner, and suddenly it's a $2300 computer. Then they have to keep this computer updated, and upgrade drivers and all sorts of other annoying shit. When they're done, they can now play games against people who aren't in the same room as them, on a display that's half the size of your TV. To a lot of people, that sounds quite gay.
In short, you should really try thinking before you make your arguments. Not everybody is you.
If you think 24 fps is sufficient for everything, find a film shot of a camera panning across a white picket fence. That will convince you that the human eye works at much higher rates than 24fps.
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Nope. No, I just know what I like. Sometimes I want to experience great writing, and I'll pick up something by Jose Saramago, Graham Greene, Richard Russo or any number of other real writers.
But sometimes I just want candy. I want shit getting blown up, a predictable hero, the inevitable minor love story, and more shit getting blown up. I don't see what's wrong with enjoying a cheezy tale by Dale Brown, Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, or anybody else.
And yes, despite being a member of the public who has never worked at a Barnes & Noble, I'm fully aware of what the best seller lists are. I'd guess that most reasonably intelligent people understand that they're books shipped from the publisher, not books sold by the stores. That being said, most reasonably intelligent people also realize that no store is going to place a large order of a book that it thinks has limited appeal.
Now Holden, you should try taking your own advice about insulting people, and telling them what opinions are valid to hold.
If a site doesn't work without Javascript, the site designer and programmers are incompetent, careless, or stupid, and I'd be foolish to use the site with Javascript enabled anyway.
or perhaps the client who commissioned the site didn't care, and directed the site designer and programmers to use javascript (or flash), even when it's not appropriate.
Just remember that for every commercial website, there's some suit who was ultimately in charge of how the site would work, and some of those suits are as dumb as you are.
I'm sure your career stocking shelves at Barnes & Noble was exciting and lucrative, but you clearly don't understand what's going on there.
I don't care how popular you say it is, or isn't, I'll buy pretty much anything that's actually written by Tom Clancy, just put it somewhere that I'll notice it. Same with any number of other authors (Amy Tan, John Irving, Dale Brown, Stephen Hawking).
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that if N copies of every book by a certain author sell in month 1, for the past 5 books, that the next book is also going to be a bestseller, whether or not it's any good.
TiVo already does measure commercial viewing. A few weeks ago they released the findings of a study which noted that people watched funny commercials, and commercials with beautiful or naked chicks in them.
There's no need for a 1-10 scale, when you can already just see how many people bother watching them. Besides, TiVo would use Thumbs Up/Down, not 1-10.
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The big question that arises, in my mind, is how this affects the use of Windows at hospitals and physicians offices in the United States. Darek J. Balling said the following on RISKS on July 15:
Something which occurred to me, working in the healthcare industry these days, is that I'm not sure - given HIPAA compliancy regulations and the like - that I *can* agree to allow companies permission "to install random software on random machines without any notice or
confirmation".
Derek was referring to the Windows XP media player EULA update, but his point his point applies to any piece of software that asks for remote control or update capabilities. At what point will the use of Windows in many settings (healthcare, banking, etc) actually become illegal, due to conflicts between the law, and the EULA?
Honestly, if 90% of your new messages received are spam and this is with an email address you never gave out - you have issues with your particular ISP.
In a word, no. Spammers often engage in what's referred to as a rumplestiltskin attack, where they just try to send mail to someguy@somedomain.com, and then they see if it bounces. If it doesn't, bingo, that address is being resold.
Additionally, for major providers like AT&T, Hotmail, etc, they'll take every single username that they know of at hotmail, and try it at AT&T, and see what bounces.
Add to this the fact that they often do these tests while bouncing through 500 open relays that they don't control, and you have an extremely hard to detect, hard to control wardialer.
Unmounting the drive and doing a dd is fine. assuming that the hardware I'm backing up stays permanently available, which it will not. Restoring via dd onto non-identical hardware is hit or miss at best.
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As for the incentive, of course there's the initial novelty, but it's also more interesting than reading the 'Injured? Call 1-800-BIG-MONEY!' ad that's by the subway car's interior roof, or the budweiser ad that's on the subway car's interior wall.
Personally, I like the ads, and if I don't want to see them, that's why God invented the concept of not looking.
Actually, I prefer to play Who Wants To Smoke My Honeybear.
You can get 4.6.1, you just wouldn't want to, because then you'd have to apply 11 patches to get it to 4.6.1-p11, then one more to get it to 4.6.2. They didn't make a big public announcement because of the number of major issues that came up right after it was created (OpenSSL and such) and because of some bugs that turned out to be not quite fixed.
Make those numbers $7,000 and $5000 respectively, and I'll agree.
BeOS didn't take off because the software wasn't there. Unless you were writing your own interactive graphics utilities, there was no reason to use it.
Okay, so what they're doing is gathering traffic data, which they destroy after 24 hours, leaving only aggregate data with which they can analyze traffic flow and such. This isn't exactly an invasion of privacy.
To those people who think that by not having a little pass on, nobody can track you, I point you the toll highways where they just electronically read your license plate in order to charge you your toll, instead of bothering with an electronic tag, or the occasional murder case where they manage to find photos of the suspect paying a toll somewhere, despite the fact that the suspect wasn't using an electronic tracking tag.
well, they implemented a system called 'fuck hbo', where you could record something off of hbo, then send it to your friend who doesn't have hbo, and they implemented a system called 'sponsorfuck', which automatically skips commercials.
oh, you meant unethical behaviour that doesn't benefit you.
The loans given to the board members were completely legal and were not hidden in the financial statements. Some investors came to the CEO and asked about them.
He then requested that the three board members, who had taken out legal loans, repay them immediately (instead of at their due date, of June 2003) or to resign.
Now which of these actions is worse, really? Allowing somebody to take out a loan, then demanding they either accept a major change in the terms of the loan or they resign. Or to oust the guy who just renegged on a perfectly legal deal that he had previously agreed to.
I hate boardroom shenanigans as much as the next guy, but there's no story here.
- you have a job that requires that you post on public, technical mailing lists.
- you have a job where your email address ends up in whois records.
- you're the postmaster, hostmaster or any other sort of contact for a company.
- you don't need your email address to be publicly available for business reasons.
- somebody forwards an email that you sent them to a public mailing list.
- you've had the same, well-known email address since the days when it was considered a good thing to publicize your address.
- one of your friends or business associates gets a virus that causes your email address to end up getting sent off to a mailing list or something.
- your dipshit ISP allows VRFY.
- etc, etc, etc.
There's not always an easy way to keep from getting spam, even if you're relatively careful with your addresses.This system makes it relatively easy for me to receive email from people who don't abuse the fact that they know my address, and extremely easy to filter the spammers to /dev/null, or better yet, set them up as spamassassin spamtraps, which will make it so incoming mail messages get automatically added to things like Vipul's Razor before they delete them.
The spam crawlers are more likely to notice bbalan@surenet.net when it's in a proper mailto tag, so don't do that.
For less than $400 you can buy a box that you hook to your receiver, you put games in and they work. They display on that nice big TV you already own, and you invite your friends over to drink some beers and play Blitz, and you all laugh your asses off as you take turns beating hookers with a bat in GTA3. When you get a new game, the only thing you do is put the disc in, and it works. You invite some friends over, trash talk each other, have a great time and in short, it's fucking awesome.
Compare that to the PC solution, and remember that non-computer geeks don't build PCs out of whitebox parts that they bought off of pricewatch. They go to dell. They pick a middle of the road model from the Dimension line and it says it's $989. Then they upgrade to Microsoft Office, splurge on a 21" monitor and a cd burner, and suddenly it's a $2300 computer. Then they have to keep this computer updated, and upgrade drivers and all sorts of other annoying shit. When they're done, they can now play games against people who aren't in the same room as them, on a display that's half the size of your TV. To a lot of people, that sounds quite gay.
In short, you should really try thinking before you make your arguments. Not everybody is you.
Combine that with the copy-cat games like Rez and you've got a really awful console.
If you think 24 fps is sufficient for everything, find a film shot of a camera panning across a white picket fence. That will convince you that the human eye works at much higher rates than 24fps.
Trolls of low-UID? I don't think they exist!
But sometimes I just want candy. I want shit getting blown up, a predictable hero, the inevitable minor love story, and more shit getting blown up. I don't see what's wrong with enjoying a cheezy tale by Dale Brown, Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, or anybody else.
And yes, despite being a member of the public who has never worked at a Barnes & Noble, I'm fully aware of what the best seller lists are. I'd guess that most reasonably intelligent people understand that they're books shipped from the publisher, not books sold by the stores. That being said, most reasonably intelligent people also realize that no store is going to place a large order of a book that it thinks has limited appeal.
Now Holden, you should try taking your own advice about insulting people, and telling them what opinions are valid to hold.
Just remember that for every commercial website, there's some suit who was ultimately in charge of how the site would work, and some of those suits are as dumb as you are.
I don't care how popular you say it is, or isn't, I'll buy pretty much anything that's actually written by Tom Clancy, just put it somewhere that I'll notice it. Same with any number of other authors (Amy Tan, John Irving, Dale Brown, Stephen Hawking).
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that if N copies of every book by a certain author sell in month 1, for the past 5 books, that the next book is also going to be a bestseller, whether or not it's any good.
There's no need for a 1-10 scale, when you can already just see how many people bother watching them. Besides, TiVo would use Thumbs Up/Down, not 1-10.
Additionally, for major providers like AT&T, Hotmail, etc, they'll take every single username that they know of at hotmail, and try it at AT&T, and see what bounces.
Add to this the fact that they often do these tests while bouncing through 500 open relays that they don't control, and you have an extremely hard to detect, hard to control wardialer.
Unmounting the drive and doing a dd is fine. assuming that the hardware I'm backing up stays permanently available, which it will not. Restoring via dd onto non-identical hardware is hit or miss at best.
This will modify the atime, lose file attributes, ignore ACLs, etc. It will provide an archive, not a backup.