What about the methods that involved a chicken at midnight?
Resurrection? What about reincarnation?
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Creative Data Loss
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If data can be resurrected from the dead, do I have to worry about it later reincarnating on someone else's new drive? That could be quite a security risk! How do I metaphysically protect my data?
Hotmail had better lose the advertising text that it gloms to the bottom of every email sent through them. I wouldn't blame people for disintegrating any email with this crud on the bottom:
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get-togethers.
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The excuse of "oh well, it's free" isn't good enough any more.
If the email thing doesn't work out, they can always turn it into an online vampire RPG where you have control of the childer accounts that you invited to join.
Re:Size matters when it comes to Webmail
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The Webmail Wars
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My Hotmail account (> 1 year old) is still 2MBytes.
Calling it a beta always makes me wonder if one day they'll suddenly hit the reality reset button and wipe the accounts. (Like a beta trial of a MMPOG.) Probably not, most likely it's a beta because they're still tinkering with it and the features aren't set in stone.
I'll say one thing, it's amazing how much spam comes in from just two public uses of an account in Usenet posts! (Most of it goes directly to the spam folder.)
One problem with building up names is that unless you lock them in with binding contracts, they can always go elsewhere and take that value with them. At the time, the new EA was trying to attract the names from other companies.
From the story, the only thing remaining attached to Hubble will be the deorbitor to provide power and eventually the kick out of orbit. I guess the rest will be burned/splashed. Did anyone tell Dextre that it's a suicide mission yet? (I'm sure he'll be brave about it.)
There'll probably be PR, especially if the mission succeeds, about the pluky robot with Can-do. Maybe even toys in cereal boxes. So they might want to think about how they're going to explain "Where's Dextre now?" to kids.
Not always. Primary development and client support are different roles. Not all people are good at both. Also, large clients can have a warping effect effect on the product/company.
Besides, when the groceries, mortgage, car and the kids education depends on the income for support, won't there be a temptation to carefully make sure that the group that developed it are the best to support it?
Of course, then every laptop would have to come with a little fold-out projection screen because there won't always be flat surface available when traveling.
I might still have the jacket and flyer for EA's pinball construction set. It talked about how they were going to treat game programmers like rock stars, their names on boxes, household words, blah blah blah... I could just see the cycling from prima-donnas to peons waiting to happen.
But that shifts the income away from development to corporate support contracts. (And you might be competing with other companies for those contracts.) I'm not sure that's a good thing in the long run.
Slashdot Mirror
He could definitely use a makeover. Either in Photoshop or Bubba Eye for the Spammer Guy.
You mean Robot Heaven, don't you?
Does it stop people from emailing it with Occultlook Express?
What about the methods that involved a chicken at midnight?
If data can be resurrected from the dead, do I have to worry about it later reincarnating on someone else's new drive? That could be quite a security risk! How do I metaphysically protect my data?
The link in my current sig might help with that.
No spam? Use it once in a Usenet post (as your From address) and see what happens.
If the email thing doesn't work out, they can always turn it into an online vampire RPG where you have control of the childer accounts that you invited to join.
My Hotmail account (> 1 year old) is still 2MBytes.
I'll say one thing, it's amazing how much spam comes in from just two public uses of an account in Usenet posts! (Most of it goes directly to the spam folder.)
One problem with building up names is that unless you lock them in with binding contracts, they can always go elsewhere and take that value with them. At the time, the new EA was trying to attract the names from other companies.
There'll probably be PR, especially if the mission succeeds, about the pluky robot with Can-do. Maybe even toys in cereal boxes. So they might want to think about how they're going to explain "Where's Dextre now?" to kids.
That little pissing match has stories from both sides.
Didn't they just discontinue the 747? Oh well.
Besides, when the groceries, mortgage, car and the kids education depends on the income for support, won't there be a temptation to carefully make sure that the group that developed it are the best to support it?
The last versions don't seem too bad (not that I've tried PDAs). I wonder how cheap they'll be discounted before they disappear?
The projection is of Londo Mollari, and the Narns do not look happy to see you.
This device should be surpressed for the good of all humanity. Think of the children!
Of course, then every laptop would have to come with a little fold-out projection screen because there won't always be flat surface available when traveling.
I might still have the jacket and flyer for EA's pinball construction set. It talked about how they were going to treat game programmers like rock stars, their names on boxes, household words, blah blah blah... I could just see the cycling from prima-donnas to peons waiting to happen.
But that shifts the income away from development to corporate support contracts. (And you might be competing with other companies for those contracts.) I'm not sure that's a good thing in the long run.
I think their current economic model consists of getting rich off of each others' click-throughs and showing thumbnails of each others' thumbnails.
That's nice, but if they don't want to use copyright, they've always had the option of releasing code into the public domain.
Saying that copyrights are or should be dead is extreme since the GPL is protected by copyright.