I've almost got a voice command interface for Zork working. Changing it from MS Agent to SAPI for the telephone shouldn't be a biggy.
Hi, I'd like to sell you a camera...
You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
Although the word recognition sucks for a program like Eliza, the results could still be gratifying. "Would it make you happy if you could sell me a digital kangaroo?"
There's a difference between telling a friend over a beer that the new Mac will use the Blort chip, and publishing schematics. One is just being loose-lipped, and other is deliberate (and really stupid).
"Daft" "You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it does."
As for a non-spammer trapped with a spam-friendly ISP, there are such things as white-lists. On the other hand, I don't know anyone in China or Korea. Why should blocking them make mail less useful? The spam I get from there already makes mail less useful.
Right. If some ISP wants to be spam-friendly, I doubt that I'll want to receive any of their other email. It's only when ISPs get a kick in the bank account that they'll stop collecting pink money. Filtering just sweeps it under the carpet. I am not SPEWS, but I approve of what they do.
POS systems are more complex than they look Gee, too bad that you didn't tell me that back in '95 before they got two months behind on my paycheque. (Certification at their bank is your friend.
Someone made the comment... I did. In the post right above, look. Your contract specifics the hardware, how hard could that be? Please don't whine about different escape codes for printers. Been there, done that.
Credit card readers, no. They usually piggyback on the keyboard. Barcode scanners, ditto. Cash tills, okay maybe.
But none of this is new ground. Back in 1995, Pizza Hut (and their other chain which I forget) was using QNX for their POS. (Licensing fees were a bitch, but they downloaded that onto their franchises.) This problem has been previously solved.
As I've said, the real answer is that they could buy truck loads of VB programmers by the tonne.
About the only thing non-"standard" that a POS system would have to support would be a magnetic card reader. And most of the time, those just show up as keyboard input. Hmm, and a receipt printer. Gee, do you think that Linux can handle an ASCII printer? (You would not believe how much those things cost.)
Bafflegab cybercrud excuses. Bullshit Baffles Brains. My guess, they could get a freight-car of VB programmers cheep. (I saw a tor.jobs ad for VB programmers in California. "Embeded" VB in healthcare apps. Scarey stuff!)
Okay, I was wrong. But the original release of OS/2 was well before Win 3.1. It was the release of Win 3.0 finally that put the cat among the pigeons in the first place. (I can well understand why Microsoft shafted IBM at that point. OS/2 was hard sell, and Win 3.0 had cute bevels.) In the same time frame, Wing Commander was making the Sound Blaster a success.
My only contact with OS/2 was maintaining a 3COM server with.. 2.1? We replaced the 3COM server with ass-kicking 486/25 servers and OS/2 (1990). It was a weird gig. It was easier to hire a new engineer than to get him (yes, 99% him) a computer and software. The budget fight eventually pared "workstations" down to a 386sx/16 with 4 meg ram, 40 meg HD. Resume, do your stuff! {On to a Delrina death-march project...}
For the most part, the big money spammers don't care about response rates. They aren't trying to sell anything -- they're spamming for someone else, and that's where their money comes from.
Interested in spam filters? Come join us in Cambridge on January 17, 2003 at the first conference on spam filtering.
While anyone will be welcome, we're hoping most of all to make this an opportunity for hackers working on spam filters to get together and compare notes.
Filters. That's a give-away. Filters are damage-control after the thief has left. Block them at the first HELO, block them after their ISP refuses to handle complaints to abuse@, block widely, block often. Talking heads, I've said it once.
The article explains little of the technology though
Well, it is the Toronto Star.
The Globe and Mail is read by the people who own the country. (It's Toronto's national newspaper, except for the National which is Toronto's other national newspaper.) The Toronto Star is read by the people who whine when they don't run the country.
The Toronto Sun is read by the people who don't care who runs the country,
so long as she has big tits on page 3. Weeklies like NOW offer insight into: politics or performance art? (With the establishment's hand up their sock-puppet bum.) -- Adapted from Yes, Prime Minister
No doubt about it. Regardless of who flew first, the Wright brothers turned aerodynamics into a measurable science.
You are forgetting they used wind tunnels to test flight characteristics Huh? When did I say that they didn't? I'm certainly not knocking the paintaking research that the Wright brothers did -- Quite the opposite. I was just trying to point out the absurdity of saying that pioneers had to do everything for themselves for the first time. Of course! That's why they're called pioneers.
The greatest achievement of the Wright brothers was not only that they made something that worked, but that they knew why it worked.
And most importantly, they mastered the art of the presentation: Enough people on hand to document a success, no enough people to spread word of a failure.
I'm kidding of course. (I think.) I strong agree with everything you said.
That's interesting, but when they say "first flight", they mean "first heavier than air powered flight". Dumont doesn't qualify for that until 1906. A quibble, but.. No Prize.
Imagine.. Two bicycle mechanics building such a machine from scratch, with hardly any prior experience to build upon. According to the article they had to figure out and build everything themselves up to the engine and the prop. Then... climbing into that thing and actually flying it. Remember, those guys didn't attend flight school first.:^P I think everyone was in the same boat, er, plane at that time.
I could be wrong, but doesn't the Smithsonian have to defend the Wright Bros as first flyers or immediately lose the Wright Bros exhibit? There was bad blood for many years with the Smithsonian claiming Prof. Langley flew first, or sort of, could of, if we make a few modifications to the plane and.. It was a very nasty business from some accounts that I've read.
I not saying that they'd shade the truth, but they definitely have an agenda in this matter.
Regardless of his criminal record, would he spam for penis pills and p0rn if he had any taste? Would he spam at all? (He's lying about not spamming porn in the article by the way. Spammer Rule #1)
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Oh cool! Sims: Trailer Park!
Hi, I'd like to sell you a camera...
You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
Although the word recognition sucks for a program like Eliza, the results could still be gratifying. "Would it make you happy if you could sell me a digital kangaroo?"
There's a difference between telling a friend over a beer that the new Mac will use the Blort chip, and publishing schematics. One is just being loose-lipped, and other is deliberate (and really stupid).
Does that mean that you don't get lunch?
I'm saving it for a Lord of the Rings Triple Feature. (Somebody's got to show one some time. I'll be there.)
As for a non-spammer trapped with a spam-friendly ISP, there are such things as white-lists. On the other hand, I don't know anyone in China or Korea. Why should blocking them make mail less useful? The spam I get from there already makes mail less useful.
Right. If some ISP wants to be spam-friendly, I doubt that I'll want to receive any of their other email. It's only when ISPs get a kick in the bank account that they'll stop collecting pink money. Filtering just sweeps it under the carpet. I am not SPEWS, but I approve of what they do.
Someone made the comment... I did. In the post right above, look. Your contract specifics the hardware, how hard could that be? Please don't whine about different escape codes for printers. Been there, done that.
Umm... It you move your King next to my Queen, that's checkmate no?
Not just their heart: Other parts too.
But none of this is new ground. Back in 1995, Pizza Hut (and their other chain which I forget) was using QNX for their POS. (Licensing fees were a bitch, but they downloaded that onto their franchises.) This problem has been previously solved.
As I've said, the real answer is that they could buy truck loads of VB programmers by the tonne.
Bafflegab cybercrud excuses. Bullshit Baffles Brains. My guess, they could get a freight-car of VB programmers cheep. (I saw a tor.jobs ad for VB programmers in California. "Embeded" VB in healthcare apps. Scarey stuff!)
My only contact with OS/2 was maintaining a 3COM server with .. 2.1? We replaced the 3COM server with ass-kicking 486/25 servers and OS/2 (1990). It was a weird gig. It was easier to hire a new engineer than to get him (yes, 99% him) a computer and software. The budget fight eventually pared "workstations" down to a 386sx/16 with 4 meg ram, 40 meg HD. Resume, do your stuff! {On to a Delrina death-march project...}
I think you mean Considering that the current version of OS/2 came out way back when Windows 3.1 was around
For the most part, the big money spammers don't care about response rates. They aren't trying to sell anything -- they're spamming for someone else, and that's where their money comes from.
While anyone will be welcome, we're hoping most of all to make this an opportunity for hackers working on spam filters to get together and compare notes.
Filters. That's a give-away. Filters are damage-control after the thief has left. Block them at the first HELO, block them after their ISP refuses to handle complaints to abuse@, block widely, block often. Talking heads, I've said it once.
Well, it is the Toronto Star.
The Globe and Mail is read by the people who own the country. (It's Toronto's national newspaper, except for the National which is Toronto's other national newspaper.) The Toronto Star is read by the people who whine when they don't run the country. The Toronto Sun is read by the people who don't care who runs the country, so long as she has big tits on page 3. Weeklies like NOW offer insight into: politics or performance art? (With the establishment's hand up their sock-puppet bum.)
-- Adapted from Yes, Prime Minister
You are forgetting they used wind tunnels to test flight characteristics Huh? When did I say that they didn't? I'm certainly not knocking the paintaking research that the Wright brothers did -- Quite the opposite. I was just trying to point out the absurdity of saying that pioneers had to do everything for themselves for the first time. Of course! That's why they're called pioneers.
The greatest achievement of the Wright brothers was not only that they made something that worked, but that they knew why it worked.
I'm kidding of course. (I think.) I strong agree with everything you said.
That's interesting, but when they say "first flight", they mean "first heavier than air powered flight". Dumont doesn't qualify for that until 1906. A quibble, but .. No Prize.
To be fair, the Wrights didn't build the engine.
I not saying that they'd shade the truth, but they definitely have an agenda in this matter.
It was a cheap disposable camera. (And it kept firing the flash, which was a bit of a give-away.)
Regardless of his criminal record, would he spam for penis pills and p0rn if he had any taste? Would he spam at all? (He's lying about not spamming porn in the article by the way. Spammer Rule #1)
Remember, call-display blocking does not affect 800 numbers -- They will get the number you are calling from.