Corel was constantly chasing the latest "hot" technologies without ever letting their products mature and becoming marketable. Your reference to the change from Linux to.NET is a great example. But ever since Corel Draw became obsolete, Corel spent large amounts of time and money developing hype-driven products.
The first blunder I remember happened when Java was super hyped-up by Sun. With great fanfare, Corel ported Word Perfect to Java. Corel later cancelled the project, right when it was gaining market traction, seemlingly because the Java hype calming down. Around the same time, Palm sneaked on the scene with their much-hyped PDAs, and Corel announced it would create a PDA running Java (which never made it to market).
The bubble moved on, and in around 1999, Linux became the hot technology. Corel created a Linux distribution and ported Word Perfect to Linux. Only a few years later, Corel cancelled both projects and announced it's amazing new idea to create products for.NET. I can only imagine their.NET products will share the same fate.
I have no sympathy for Corel's demise. Ever since Corel Draw became a cash-cow, Corel never attempted to create products people actually wanted (to pay for, anyway). They chased hot technologies instead of customer's needs. I can't believe so many people, especially people on Slashdot, took the hype to heart and actually believed Corel would follow through on their announcements.
I could say the same thing about masturbation being difficult, but I'll save you the details. With either NASCAR or masturbation, it's basically a pretty simple act that people happen to enjoy.
Writing in OO is more about your design and process, not about the language. With structs and proper design patterns, lots of object-oriented programs have been written with C. Many object-oriented concepts, such as information hiding and protected class members, can be put in place with programming practices and styles. They don't have to be enforced by the compiler.
(And in fact, even with C++ you can access private members of classes by using pointer offsets.)
It's not his problem, it's a problem with your default text size. Go into your browser's configuration and change increase it. Or if you're in IE, hold down the Ctrl key and roll your mouse scrolly thing to increase or decrease your font size.
While there's no way to pursue email harvesters through legal channels, there's other ways this technique is useful.
In the example given, the spam harvester used a unique User-Agent string and a constant IP address for spidering. As a web site owner, you could block requests based on either of those credentials. In addition, you can publish your findings so that other web sites and networks can block the harvesters you find too.
You can also complain to the harvester's ISP. Since spam is often sent with open relays, you can't track down spammers through email headers. But by recording the IP address that harvested your email address, you know the initial source of the spam. The email address gives you a point of contact to start complaining to ISPs and possibly track down spammer's marketing site.
You know how companies are more concerned about their stock price than just about anything? Well, watch the stock market on a day the monthly employment numbers come out. If there's higher unemployment, the markets usually go up. Why? Because companies can give smaller salary increases and they can acquire new employees for a lowered cost (in both salary and search time).
I haven't paid attention to the employment report's effect on the markets lately, but during the bubble the market would always drop if there was lower unemployment. At that time, it meant it would be even more expensive to get new technology workers... but even now the economics of hiring remain the same.
I'm not an economist, but this is how I understand it:
International inbalance in supply and demand is mostly solved through exchange rate fluctuations. When jobs and investment are move out of the US, the American exchange rate is drops. This is because the things Americans make are too expensive compared to equivalents offered by other economies. But as the exchange rate gets lower, things become more affordable to other countries. And as it lowers, at some point the exchange rate will drop to a level where things are as affordable as they used to be. Trading will resume at the same level it used to in US dollars, even though people outside the US will be paying less for the same goods and services. Ignoring worker efficiency improvements, at this point the economy will return to normal.
However, the great tech boom of the 90s did a lot to improve worker efficiency. Now that corporate revenues are lower, companies are finally starting to implement systems for their cost savings. Software such as Enterprise Resource Management and Customer Relationship Management tools reduce the need for workers, while the Internet allows workers to be moved to more affordable locations. These technologies are causing the recovery to take longer, but at some time the supply and demand will be rebalanced.
Where is your evidence that Americans spend 6-8 hours a day in front of a TV? Do you even know anyone that watches that much TV? Every day? I'd like to see an actual report on American TV usage, preferably not organized by TV networks.
The Grand Canyon doesn't separate the east and west coasts. It's just in the north west corner of Arizona. After all, you can drive across the US. The bigger problem is the lack of population west of the front range before you get to the Sierra mountains. Like in New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, etc. There's a lot of space where there's no gas stations for a hundred miles, let alone someone with a wireless relay.
But even if there were relays in unpopulated areas, you're right that the delays between each hop would make cross-country pings untollerable.
What proof do you have that the UAL 93 passengers overpowered their hijackers? The only people who have heard the cockpit voice recorders are federal employees, who needed clearances to work on the project, and family members. I don't trust either group: the first has something to hide, and the other wants their loved ones to be remembered as heroes.
Since 9/11 I've always thought UAL 93 was shot down by the military. There has never been publically available primary source material to prove it wasn't.
Wow I didn't know German had its own cursive style, but apparently it does... (I found this image that illustrates it pretty well.) To me it's really interesting how broken the C is, and how different the S is. I wish I could find a picture of a written page using schriebschrift like you describe.
Speeding in areas with pedestrians, or speeding in a way that makes you a "maniac", are obviously unsafe. But speeding itself is not inherently unsafe. Often speed limits are set purposely low to create revenues for cities (I-80 in Elko, Nevada, for instance). Instead of setting speed limits lower to raise revenues through tickets, municipalities should call a spade a spade and just tax people depending on how fast they're going.
Cops will still be around to keep people driving responsibly. And this way, drivers can pay attention to driving -safely-, rather than looking for and obeying arbitrary speed limit signs.
Considering even Microsoft isn't supporting Windows 98 in its latest Office suite, I don't think Mozilla developers should worry about it. NTLM is mostly used for authentication in corporations anyway, and most corporations use at least NT for Windows servers, and have switched their desktops to Windows 2000 or XP Professional.
FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell apparently thinks "democracy" is great when it applies to elections, but not to government policy. In his '99 FCC Commissioner statement, he said:
The Commission here avowedly promises... to initiate public debate on "whether, and how, broadcasters' public interest obligations can be refined to promote democracy and better educate the voting public."
However, after Bush has appointed him as chairman and he's no longer at the whim of an election, he changes his story. Here is his quote in the Washington Post article:
"You don't govern just by polls and surveys.... If all of our rulemaking was just a case of put them out and take a referendum, things would be a lot easier."
It seems to me he isn't following his "promise" of promote democracy.
I would understand if he called the US Government a republic. But why do so many public figures, elected or appointed, praise the ideals of a democracy but insist on following the processes of a republic? If he wants to promote democracy, he should listen to the petitions and keep the restrictions on entertainment conglomerates.
Speeding tickets really are just a "road tax." This could be a great start to an automated system. Something like 2 cents per mile per mile over the speed limit. 20 miles at 10 miles over the speed limit would be $4 each time you did it... which is pretty reasonable but still expensive enough to discourage people from speeding. Maybe a "reckless tax" too, which would triple the tax if you're 15 miles per hour over.
It's a waste to have cops sit on highways looking for speeders. What they really should be looking for is unsafe drivers. It would be nice if a combination of technology and new police priorities could push people to drive more safely. Right now, people's main priority is trying to obey speed limits and signs designed by people who never use the roads they apply to.
Snort doesn't send packets out onto your ISP's network, it only analyzes what comes in. In your acceptable use policy they forbid packet sniffers, port scanners and network analyzers because they send traffic out to other nodes over the ISP's network. Specifically, those tools are basically used for hacking other customers... so you can see why they forbid it. Firewalls and intrusion detection systems only effect your machine, so ISPs won't care and wouldn't be able to detect them either.
I'd love to flood the post office with Form 1500s against bulk mail, but then actually subscribe to hardcore porn magazines and newsletters about swinging and nudist festivals. Somewhere, someone would be watching and wondering...
If you look into AIM usage, there's a lot of teenage girls out there that sit infront of a computer and chat with friends all day. These girls also have siblings, so there's a lot of infighting about who gets to use the computer. These devices are perfect for those families. It gets kids off the computer so the computer can be used for more worthwhile stuff. For $99, it's way cheaper than another computer and everyone can do what they want to.
So you have two teenagers... are you going to buy another computer so they'll stop fighting over who can chat when? -That- seems like having an extraneous hardware device that this product can do for under $100.
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Corel was constantly chasing the latest "hot" technologies without ever letting their products mature and becoming marketable. Your reference to the change from Linux to .NET is a great example. But ever since Corel Draw became obsolete, Corel spent large amounts of time and money developing hype-driven products.
.NET. I can only imagine their .NET products will share the same fate.
The first blunder I remember happened when Java was super hyped-up by Sun. With great fanfare, Corel ported Word Perfect to Java. Corel later cancelled the project, right when it was gaining market traction, seemlingly because the Java hype calming down. Around the same time, Palm sneaked on the scene with their much-hyped PDAs, and Corel announced it would create a PDA running Java (which never made it to market).
The bubble moved on, and in around 1999, Linux became the hot technology. Corel created a Linux distribution and ported Word Perfect to Linux. Only a few years later, Corel cancelled both projects and announced it's amazing new idea to create products for
I have no sympathy for Corel's demise. Ever since Corel Draw became a cash-cow, Corel never attempted to create products people actually wanted (to pay for, anyway). They chased hot technologies instead of customer's needs. I can't believe so many people, especially people on Slashdot, took the hype to heart and actually believed Corel would follow through on their announcements.
I could say the same thing about masturbation being difficult, but I'll save you the details. With either NASCAR or masturbation, it's basically a pretty simple act that people happen to enjoy.
C is not OO at all!
Writing in OO is more about your design and process, not about the language. With structs and proper design patterns, lots of object-oriented programs have been written with C. Many object-oriented concepts, such as information hiding and protected class members, can be put in place with programming practices and styles. They don't have to be enforced by the compiler.
(And in fact, even with C++ you can access private members of classes by using pointer offsets.)
I tried to RTFA but MIT hasn't emailed it to me yet :(.
It's not his problem, it's a problem with your default text size. Go into your browser's configuration and change increase it. Or if you're in IE, hold down the Ctrl key and roll your mouse scrolly thing to increase or decrease your font size.
While there's no way to pursue email harvesters through legal channels, there's other ways this technique is useful.
In the example given, the spam harvester used a unique User-Agent string and a constant IP address for spidering. As a web site owner, you could block requests based on either of those credentials. In addition, you can publish your findings so that other web sites and networks can block the harvesters you find too.
You can also complain to the harvester's ISP. Since spam is often sent with open relays, you can't track down spammers through email headers. But by recording the IP address that harvested your email address, you know the initial source of the spam. The email address gives you a point of contact to start complaining to ISPs and possibly track down spammer's marketing site.
You know how companies are more concerned about their stock price than just about anything? Well, watch the stock market on a day the monthly employment numbers come out. If there's higher unemployment, the markets usually go up. Why? Because companies can give smaller salary increases and they can acquire new employees for a lowered cost (in both salary and search time).
I haven't paid attention to the employment report's effect on the markets lately, but during the bubble the market would always drop if there was lower unemployment. At that time, it meant it would be even more expensive to get new technology workers... but even now the economics of hiring remain the same.
I'm not an economist, but this is how I understand it:
International inbalance in supply and demand is mostly solved through exchange rate fluctuations. When jobs and investment are move out of the US, the American exchange rate is drops. This is because the things Americans make are too expensive compared to equivalents offered by other economies. But as the exchange rate gets lower, things become more affordable to other countries. And as it lowers, at some point the exchange rate will drop to a level where things are as affordable as they used to be. Trading will resume at the same level it used to in US dollars, even though people outside the US will be paying less for the same goods and services. Ignoring worker efficiency improvements, at this point the economy will return to normal.
However, the great tech boom of the 90s did a lot to improve worker efficiency. Now that corporate revenues are lower, companies are finally starting to implement systems for their cost savings. Software such as Enterprise Resource Management and Customer Relationship Management tools reduce the need for workers, while the Internet allows workers to be moved to more affordable locations. These technologies are causing the recovery to take longer, but at some time the supply and demand will be rebalanced.
Finally a valid reason for Xeroxing your butt: Identification!
Where is your evidence that Americans spend 6-8 hours a day in front of a TV? Do you even know anyone that watches that much TV? Every day? I'd like to see an actual report on American TV usage, preferably not organized by TV networks.
Plus, we have to go around the grand canyon.
The Grand Canyon doesn't separate the east and west coasts. It's just in the north west corner of Arizona. After all, you can drive across the US. The bigger problem is the lack of population west of the front range before you get to the Sierra mountains. Like in New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, etc. There's a lot of space where there's no gas stations for a hundred miles, let alone someone with a wireless relay.
But even if there were relays in unpopulated areas, you're right that the delays between each hop would make cross-country pings untollerable.
What proof do you have that the UAL 93 passengers overpowered their hijackers? The only people who have heard the cockpit voice recorders are federal employees, who needed clearances to work on the project, and family members. I don't trust either group: the first has something to hide, and the other wants their loved ones to be remembered as heroes.
Since 9/11 I've always thought UAL 93 was shot down by the military. There has never been publically available primary source material to prove it wasn't.
Wow I didn't know German had its own cursive style, but apparently it does... (I found this image that illustrates it pretty well.) To me it's really interesting how broken the C is, and how different the S is. I wish I could find a picture of a written page using schriebschrift like you describe.
Speeding in areas with pedestrians, or speeding in a way that makes you a "maniac", are obviously unsafe. But speeding itself is not inherently unsafe. Often speed limits are set purposely low to create revenues for cities (I-80 in Elko, Nevada, for instance). Instead of setting speed limits lower to raise revenues through tickets, municipalities should call a spade a spade and just tax people depending on how fast they're going.
Cops will still be around to keep people driving responsibly. And this way, drivers can pay attention to driving -safely-, rather than looking for and obeying arbitrary speed limit signs.
Considering even Microsoft isn't supporting Windows 98 in its latest Office suite, I don't think Mozilla developers should worry about it. NTLM is mostly used for authentication in corporations anyway, and most corporations use at least NT for Windows servers, and have switched their desktops to Windows 2000 or XP Professional.
It seems to me he isn't following his "promise" of promote democracy.
I would understand if he called the US Government a republic. But why do so many public figures, elected or appointed, praise the ideals of a democracy but insist on following the processes of a republic? If he wants to promote democracy, he should listen to the petitions and keep the restrictions on entertainment conglomerates.
Speeding tickets really are just a "road tax." This could be a great start to an automated system. Something like 2 cents per mile per mile over the speed limit. 20 miles at 10 miles over the speed limit would be $4 each time you did it... which is pretty reasonable but still expensive enough to discourage people from speeding. Maybe a "reckless tax" too, which would triple the tax if you're 15 miles per hour over.
It's a waste to have cops sit on highways looking for speeders. What they really should be looking for is unsafe drivers. It would be nice if a combination of technology and new police priorities could push people to drive more safely. Right now, people's main priority is trying to obey speed limits and signs designed by people who never use the roads they apply to.
Yeah it seems to me that people only watch game shows when nothing else is on. If I had a TiVo, I'd never watch game shows again!
Snort doesn't send packets out onto your ISP's network, it only analyzes what comes in. In your acceptable use policy they forbid packet sniffers, port scanners and network analyzers because they send traffic out to other nodes over the ISP's network. Specifically, those tools are basically used for hacking other customers... so you can see why they forbid it. Firewalls and intrusion detection systems only effect your machine, so ISPs won't care and wouldn't be able to detect them either.
Medium is quite watchable, and OK for fairly static programmes (gameshows and the like)
Who records gameshows?
Like my whole day's going to be ruined if I don't watch Wheel of Fortune for the 6323th time?
I'd love to flood the post office with Form 1500s against bulk mail, but then actually subscribe to hardcore porn magazines and newsletters about swinging and nudist festivals. Somewhere, someone would be watching and wondering...
If you look into AIM usage, there's a lot of teenage girls out there that sit infront of a computer and chat with friends all day. These girls also have siblings, so there's a lot of infighting about who gets to use the computer. These devices are perfect for those families. It gets kids off the computer so the computer can be used for more worthwhile stuff. For $99, it's way cheaper than another computer and everyone can do what they want to.
So you have two teenagers... are you going to buy another computer so they'll stop fighting over who can chat when? -That- seems like having an extraneous hardware device that this product can do for under $100.
Oh come on! Do you think the guys at Mardi Gras are super pimp daddies who get any chick they do a sexy nod towards?
Now I will! Thanks, dickhead!
What do you mean? I have lots of dates dropping by my front door every day!
(Phoenix dactylifera = Date Tree)