Barratry was a new term to me, so I looked it up. According to Infospace.com (via opera dictionary lookup, handy feature that) it is: 1. fraud by a master or crew at the expense of the owners of the ship or its cargo. 2. the offense of frequently exciting and stirring up lawsuits and quarrels. 3. the purchase or sale of ecclesiastical preferments or of offices of state. Also,barretry.
Although the meaning in this context is #2. I suppose that since they are jumping headfirst into the middle of OS Holy Wars, #3 also suffices.
My vote has to go to John Carpenter's 'Dark Star'. Ultra low budget and very fuunny, it is unlike anything else I have even seen by Carpenter. It would not surprise me if it was the inspiration for 'Red Dwarf'. Four guys on a small ship for 20 years in deep space looking for unstable planets with the ever complaining Pinback, the alien beachball and of course a deep philisophical argument with a bomb.
When you advertise (on any medium) you have to count on fostering at least a little good will towards you by your prospective customers. Labeling people who have voluntarily come to your site thieves or leaches is unlikely to inpart the sense of trust and warm fuzziness needed for them to buy something from you or even come back again.
Most people are used to advertising and thus don't mind banner ads, etc... but the pop-up ad is one form that many (most?) do not like. In fact enough poeple don't like pop-ups that a thriving industry that blocks them has formed.
One would think that that would send a message to advertisers to find another, less annoying way to sell products. Instead some sites are choosing to pit themselves against their customers using technology like this. Since this software, as it is now, is easily defeatable (turning off javascript in Opera let me by their demo page and I was still able to copy "protected" images by choosing copy image from the right click menu) then the only message they are sending to visitors is "We don't like you, go away".
I think the highly competitive market out there will deal with sites that use this and favor those sites which try to accomodate their visitors wishes, Google has been brought up many times and is an excellent example.
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a waste of valuable space. The correct answer is to replace the offending view with targeted advertising!
This is not a bad deal when the company doing it is up front about it like this one is. Targeting ads is, in and of itself, not a bad thing as long as it is not jammed down your throat.
Right now you get to make the choice to provide them with the information using this tool or not.
The bad JuJU starts happening when this is used in spyware.
OK, fair is fair. I'm going to start encrypting the checks I use to pay my cable bill using the public key from a small bank in Alaska. If the cable company wants to cash it they can use the bank I choose.
After all I wrote the check so I retain the copyright to it, and that is how I wish that work particular work to be used.
If they cut off my cable I will declare that the lack of service is an attempt to circumvent my copyright protection and sue.
Seems like this is not yet the answer overclockers are looking for. From their FAQ
I am interested in
over clocking my system. Would a Koolance PC help me with this.
The current PC addresses our
intended customers, the home and office user who admire a quiet
system with the added efficiency of liquid cooling. For the
high-performance user, we do not feel our present system can accommodate
the additional stresses placed on it by overclocking the
components. Please check the news page for updates on our performance-oriented PC model coming in August.
"...or interfering with legitimate uses of e-mail for marketing purposes,"
This shows that congress and many corporations still don't get it. It's almost as if they had blinders on, all they see is an inexpensive form of advertising. If they were to really look at it they would see that there is no legitimate marketing purpose in something that annoys a vast majority of their potential customers.
That comes to.05 -.06 cents (US) per Mb, still a better deal than floppies. Even a better deal than the last 10 Gb drive I bought which was about 0.9 cents per Mb
I've got to believe he will end up doing it in Mexico.
The odds can't be good that the FAA will OK a manned flight of an untested amateur rocket.
The sane thing to do would be to spend another half million to build and launch a couple of test shots. He would have a hell of a lot better chance of convincing the FAA that all was golden after a couple succesful unmanned test flights, and a chance to discover the inevitable design flaws in his complex machine in a less permanant way!
Still, all and all, I have to think it is a good thing that there seems to be a growing civilian intrest in/push for space flight.
Re: What's wrong with this title?
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...since it's really a different animal from any previous Mac OS.
Thats what I thought too, until I stumbled across an ad for the Apple IIfx in a back issue of Scientific American (May 1990)
Right there on page 11 it says --
Our latest version of the Unix operating system -A/UX 2.0- represents 32 innovations from Apple. And hundreds of new choices for you. Because it not only makes the notoriously complex UNIX easier to use. It also lets you run UNIX programs, UNIX X Window System programs and off-the-shelf Macintosh personal productivity software
at the same time
It may be old news to some, but it surprised me! I hope OS X has better luck than the Apple IIfx enjoyed
Actually I spend much of my professional day using my computer to program PLCs for wastewater processing facilities so the consequenses would eventually be one in the same.
Texas is considering a bill to make being robbed illegal. Alarmed at the rising tide of crime Rep Bob Clueless (R) of Texas has proposed a measure requiring a minimum 5 year sentance and up $50,000 fine for being robbed.
"If we can remove the victoms of crime from society then the crimanls will have no-one to rob." said Clueless on Wednesday. "The problem now is people can go around being robbed willy-nilly and there is no accountability, we aim to change that."
The 56 year old Clueless added that people over 30 are "particularly stupid and need constant supervision anyway."
Hmmm, I think the problem here is there is not enough direct feedback to our elected offials.
I offer the following idea to correct this flaw in our system:
Upon election each politician is fitted with a non-removable remotly controlled electronic dog collar.
Upon reaching voting age each citizen is given a controller for said collars.
When an official decides to sponsor a bill they must announce it publicly in a C-SPAN like forum at a predetermined time (i.e. not at 3:00 am).
If a democratic 51% of the people think the bill is a bad idea the official receives a 40KV "correction" from their constituents.
Maybe this would curb their natural tendancy to arrogance. Right now it's just too easy for them to try and remove freedoms simply because they do not like something. It would also make C-SPAN alot more interesting.
Actually the typos and mistakes are why Napster is using them:
Gracenote also catalogs the spelling variants that have proved troublesome for Napster as the song-swap service tries to comply with a federal court injunction to block the trading of unauthorized content.
and
``The great thing is we have every misspelling and possible variant for every file. For example, we have 50 different ways to spell 'N Sync (news - web sites) because our data base is based on user submissions,'' Hyman said. Variations of the teen pop band's spelling for example could look like N+Sync or n-sinc.
It's old, but still a problem. According to nessus the Linksys BEFSR11 Cable/DSL router I used to use has a problem with easily guessable ISNs and that unit is only six months old.
I guess it's one of those deals where corners are cut because the manufacturer figures the exploit is too hard to ever become widespread.
Bad juju for the end user when someone proves them wrong.
There was bitching and complaining over small changes like a center mount rear brake light, what do you figure the reaction to a free-for-all personal monrail gizmo is going to be?
A series of small improvements has a better chance to catch on and get wide use. Like the new gas/electric hybrid cars that are being sold, they are similar to current cars but have a more efficient power plant.
Try to change too much at once and the concept will get rejected even if the it has merit.
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Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons and Matter. Good though.
Great, now the potato famine can cause blackouts too.
I stand corrected.
Well Mr Lyons and Forbes may not like the idea of the GPL, but they sure don't mind using GPLed software to spread their ideas:
www.forbes.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:52:09 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix)
Barratry was a new term to me, so I looked it up.
According to Infospace.com (via opera dictionary lookup, handy feature that) it is:
1. fraud by a master or crew at the expense of the owners of the ship or its cargo.
2. the offense of frequently exciting and stirring up lawsuits and quarrels.
3. the purchase or sale of ecclesiastical preferments or of offices of state. Also,barretry.
Although the meaning in this context is #2. I suppose that since they are jumping headfirst into the middle of OS Holy Wars, #3 also suffices.
My vote has to go to John Carpenter's 'Dark Star'. Ultra low budget and very fuunny, it is unlike anything else I have even seen by Carpenter. It would not surprise me if it was the inspiration for 'Red Dwarf'.
Four guys on a small ship for 20 years in deep space looking for unstable planets with the ever complaining Pinback, the alien beachball and of course a deep philisophical argument with a bomb.
When you advertise (on any medium) you have to count on fostering at least a little good will towards you by your prospective customers. Labeling people who have voluntarily come to your site thieves or leaches is unlikely to inpart the sense of trust and warm fuzziness needed for them to buy something from you or even come back again.
Most people are used to advertising and thus don't mind banner ads, etc... but the pop-up ad is one form that many (most?) do not like. In fact enough poeple don't like pop-ups that a thriving industry that blocks them has formed.
One would think that that would send a message to advertisers to find another, less annoying way to sell products. Instead some sites are choosing to pit themselves against their customers using technology like this. Since this software, as it is now, is easily defeatable (turning off javascript in Opera let me by their demo page and I was still able to copy "protected" images by choosing copy image from the right click menu) then the only message they are sending to visitors is "We don't like you, go away".
I think the highly competitive market out there will deal with sites that use this and favor those sites which try to accomodate their visitors wishes, Google has been brought up many times and is an excellent example.
a waste of valuable space. The correct answer is to replace the offending view with targeted advertising!
www.pbs.org
As of 20:08 CST Opera 5.05 for Linux was still locked out.
The thing that really makes me wonder is the link to advertise on MSN at the bottom of the warning page!
That is spammer mentality. Annoying a group of people then taking the time to try and foist their wares on them.
Right now you get to make the choice to provide them with the information using this tool or not.
The bad JuJU starts happening when this is used in spyware.
After all I wrote the check so I retain the copyright to it, and that is how I wish that work particular work to be used.
If they cut off my cable I will declare that the lack of service is an attempt to circumvent my copyright protection and sue.
So There.
This shows that congress and many corporations still don't get it.
It's almost as if they had blinders on, all they see is an inexpensive form of advertising. If they were to really look at it they would see that there is no legitimate marketing purpose in something that annoys a vast majority of their potential customers.
I always wondered where people who got their degrees in buisiness management from late night TV commercials would end up working, now I know.
The odds can't be good that the FAA will OK a manned flight of an untested amateur rocket.
The sane thing to do would be to spend another half million to build and launch a couple of test shots. He would have a hell of a lot better chance of convincing the FAA that all was golden after a couple succesful unmanned test flights, and a chance to discover the inevitable design flaws in his complex machine in a less permanant way!
Still, all and all, I have to think it is a good thing that there seems to be a growing civilian intrest in/push for space flight.
Thats what I thought too, until I stumbled across an ad for the Apple IIfx in a back issue of Scientific American (May 1990)
Right there on page 11 it says --
It may be old news to some, but it surprised me! I hope OS X has better luck than the Apple IIfx enjoyed
My wife is a physicist and hates computers (or that damn machine as she calls them).
If she sees this I am going to catch some serious shit.
Great, now I can't read / until this story gets pushed off the front page.
I offer the following idea to correct this flaw in our system:
- Upon election each politician is fitted with a non-removable remotly controlled electronic dog collar.
- Upon reaching voting age each citizen is given a controller for said collars.
- When an official decides to sponsor a bill they must announce it publicly in a C-SPAN like forum at a predetermined time (i.e. not at 3:00 am).
- If a democratic 51% of the people think the bill is a bad idea the official receives a 40KV "correction" from their constituents.
Maybe this would curb their natural tendancy to arrogance. Right now it's just too easy for them to try and remove freedoms simply because they do not like something. It would also make C-SPAN alot more interesting.I guess it's one of those deals where corners are cut because the manufacturer figures the exploit is too hard to ever become widespread.
Bad juju for the end user when someone proves them wrong.
A series of small improvements has a better chance to catch on and get wide use. Like the new gas/electric hybrid cars that are being sold, they are similar to current cars but have a more efficient power plant.
Try to change too much at once and the concept will get rejected even if the it has merit.