I don't believe it is the intention to "abuse" the customer, and imho more people want the service than not. so from the efficiency standpoint it is easier to opt out (fewer mail/phone/whatever) traffic when you let the customers opt out than if you want them to opt in.
I think that register.com wanted to offer a service, because maybe in their eyes a "coming soon" page is better than a 404 page. It would have been better (in my opinion) to just write them that you don't want to have this "service" than to suing them. But you can see this as you want...
I think that it's sometimes a quite good idea to block spam, but I should leave this to corporate or private spamfilters, for maybe you block a server that acutally also relays "normal" mail traffic. If this spam blocking is done in China, it may very well look like censorship, because who guarantees that - accidentally if course - no mail servers that support civil rights activists are listen on the block list? Here in Austria most ISP have Spam filters, but it is up to you if you use them or not, and I pesonally have my own customized Spam filtering. I my opinion gouvernment controlled AntiSpam solutions produce too many false positives to be useful, and especially in this case, it looks like censoring mail, all under the cloak of "protecting" the people from unwanted spam
... in the beginning, since the linux sourcebase is huuuuuuuge, and imho it is easier to use just a few predefined interfaces that to understand the code and to actually interface with it. but in the end, i think linux si more desireable for
a. they don't switch interfaces and so on a routine basis, linux evolves but largely keeps its backward compability, whereas microsoft sometimes changed their interfaces at will and even dropped support for them and
b. it is better to understand the whole foundation you build on (or the part of the foundation) instead of blindly trusting foreign interfaces.
isn't that the main reason so many security bugs are found in windows applications? how can i program a secure app when i don't know what the underlying classes do (i don't get to see their source). What do you think of that?
well i know that bacteria are everywhere... but nobody (except pharma and wmd company's) actually produced them in great masses an released them in an everyday product. also bacteria are very well known for the fact to mutate rather rapidly and spread REALLY fast.
even if we use "harmless" bacteria, nobody knows how they will influence our health and above all - the ecosystem - if they really are cultivated in large masses to satisfy the market for battery's. so what if the "living battery" is depleted, how do you prevent the bacteria from spreading like a wildfire and eventually mutating in something harmful? before this tech should go into large scale production, massive, and i emphazise the word !massive!, tests about the implications on human immunesystem and the ecosystem of this sort of bacteria should be conducted
I would fond it interesting how the scientists can be sure that there objects have originated when our solar system was created. Wouldn't it be also possible that the asteroids traveled vast distances, having originated in stellar events far away, and eventually gor captured by sub's gravity? This would be even more interesting for us, wouldn't it. I just would like to know if it would be feasible to launch a probe to one of those objects, as to look of what materials it is composed. But can you hit an object that small across this distance and, even more land a probe safely there?
many free programs pay off for the developers because they charge for support. without proper support software is often not worth considering for many organisations, so that's a convenient way to raise funds for further development. Even more i don't think that making certain changes for money is a bad idea (as long as it doesn't compromise other parts of the program or makes it incompatible to prior versions), for all of the users will profit from it, the buyer gets what he wants and the developers get money they need to further develop the program.
well, MSBlast propably hit you because you didn't think about patching your windows. but what Symantec DID was provide a free tool to remove the worm/virus. if they didn't it would have xost you more time than just one hour i bet
... they tell honestly that they want people to actually pay for the program? Norton AntiVirus is worth every buck you pay for it, and the online update features are very comfortable. I can't imagine of "bogus" copy's that don't work, and even if they existed, why counteract with a registration. if the bogus copy doesn't work, they don't have to fear it. Furthermore Symantec does a great deal in helping us for FREE (do you remember the W32.Blaster removal tool you could download even when you weren't a costumer of them?), so i think if you want to use AntiVirus from Norton you should pay for it, if you are greedy there are a lot of free alternatives
In my opinion most IT programmers have the problem that the marketing department makes promises on products and if they eventually are sold then the IT staff has to sort things out, possible or (nearly) impossible. Most times marketing is more powerful than IT (at least here in austria), because they control most of the company's money, and saying "We can't implement this feature" after THEY already advertised it makes you look either like a "non - team player" or just a lazy bastard. Saying no is not sooooo easy sometimes if you want to stay in your job. I prefer "sublte downgrading", meaning i implement something that feels like the requested function but is downgraded and less powerful. they almost never realize it:)
It would be more reasonable to ask the IT Staff what they actually can do in advance instead of telling them they must do it... this could save a lot of time and coffee
Wired News has a similar article. Maybe you could just combine the new AI with the cute exterior ofClippy. On the other hand side it would be interesting how much space you have to allocate for the AI database. as far as i remember A.L.I.C.E. needed a quite large AIML file to be just somewhat intelligent. If now the computer should also remeber patterns in behavior and not just talk to you (Alice is a pure chatbot) then in my opinion you need quite large amounts of data to be stored. This could be useful for larger companies with a dedicated AI Server to help their employees (if we talk about AI in a network, why not call ist SKYNET), but on a normal desktop? I think that's too much.
And to focus on another problem: if this thing learns about you behavior, don't you mind about your privacy? We are all paranoid about cookies and other spyware, and then some people actually want us to deliberatly install it? Just imagine: Your boss next to you because you want to show something to him and then the computer asks: "Hi XY, you haven't visited./ today, normally syou surf it for ours during work. Can I help you get there?"
...when i read technical documents at my company i also start to laugh, but unfortunately its the "manic laugh of utter despair". In my company development and documentation are handled by two different departments, so just take a guess how the documents look like if they are written by somebody who doesn't know a glimpse anything related to IT. Hopefully other/.'ers have better experience. To cut a long story short: if the wants all the "funny" dokumentation produced at the company I work, he should just get a laaaaaarge RAID...
... if i post here including my copyright, and somebody answers cutting out some of my text in his reply, can i sue him for obscene amounts of money (of course at a court in the state of NY). does anybody know?
Hi! The company I work for is quite a large telecom provider in austria and we are already running IPv6 paralell to the v4. The implementation of the new protocol was done about a year ago (plus/minus two month). within our network (behind the firewall) the server communicate via v6 but as far as i know they can also talk v4 for fallback reasons.
It is quite interesting to see how the NASA and the ESA are competiting in the exploration of the Red Planet. Everytime the one space agency launches a probe, the other struggles to do the same. I personally think that all the Space Agencies worldwide should combine their knowledge and also their funds to do research on Mars. In the world of globalisation we live in today it makes hardly any any sense to play single player when its possible to do it multiplayer...
Since IE is already slow on Windows, the native system it comes from, it was to be expected that it will be even slower on a mac, since as far as i know there is only a compability layer to make the IE work with the mac instead of a truly MAC - Designed IE. to summarize - just patchwork to make it run...
cheers, jl --- In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
this seems to be a good invention for meetings. while PDA's are ususally by far too small for taking notes and Laptops are too big, this thing cries to be used to take notes and then- when everything is done - send it to the other participants by mail via WLAN. I at least will recommend the Aquapad to my company (at least to test it and to get one in my hand). Another cool feature is that you can choose your OS, another plus compared to the average PDA. (Although in my opinion Win 2000 doesn't make sense on this piece of hardware). I just wonder how long the batteries last before they need recharging....
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I do webservice programming myself. and to make it short: this is one of the best books on the topic ever
I don't believe it is the intention to "abuse" the customer, and imho more people want the service than not. so from the efficiency standpoint it is easier to opt out (fewer mail/phone/whatever) traffic when you let the customers opt out than if you want them to opt in.
I think that register.com wanted to offer a service, because maybe in their eyes a "coming soon" page is better than a 404 page. It would have been better (in my opinion) to just write them that you don't want to have this "service" than to suing them. But you can see this as you want...
I think that it's sometimes a quite good idea to block spam, but I should leave this to corporate or private spamfilters, for maybe you block a server that acutally also relays "normal" mail traffic. If this spam blocking is done in China, it may very well look like censorship, because who guarantees that - accidentally if course - no mail servers that support civil rights activists are listen on the block list?
Here in Austria most ISP have Spam filters, but it is up to you if you use them or not, and I pesonally have my own customized Spam filtering. I my opinion gouvernment controlled AntiSpam solutions produce too many false positives to be useful, and especially in this case, it looks like censoring mail, all under the cloak of "protecting" the people from unwanted spam
... in the beginning, since the linux sourcebase is huuuuuuuge, and imho it is easier to use just a few predefined interfaces that to understand the code and to actually interface with it. but in the end, i think linux si more desireable for
a. they don't switch interfaces and so on a routine basis, linux evolves but largely keeps its backward compability, whereas microsoft sometimes changed their interfaces at will and even dropped support for them
and
b. it is better to understand the whole foundation you build on (or the part of the foundation) instead of blindly trusting foreign interfaces.
isn't that the main reason so many security bugs are found in windows applications? how can i program a secure app when i don't know what the underlying classes do (i don't get to see their source). What do you think of that?
well i know that bacteria are everywhere... but nobody (except pharma and wmd company's) actually produced them in great masses an released them in an everyday product. also bacteria are very well known for the fact to mutate rather rapidly and spread REALLY fast.
even if we use "harmless" bacteria, nobody knows how they will influence our health and above all - the ecosystem - if they really are cultivated in large masses to satisfy the market for battery's. so what if the "living battery" is depleted, how do you prevent the bacteria from spreading like a wildfire and eventually mutating in something harmful? before this tech should go into large scale production, massive, and i emphazise the word !massive!, tests about the implications on human immunesystem and the ecosystem of this sort of bacteria should be conducted
I would fond it interesting how the scientists can be sure that there objects have originated when our solar system was created. Wouldn't it be also possible that the asteroids traveled vast distances, having originated in stellar events far away, and eventually gor captured by sub's gravity? This would be even more interesting for us, wouldn't it. I just would like to know if it would be feasible to launch a probe to one of those objects, as to look of what materials it is composed. But can you hit an object that small across this distance and, even more land a probe safely there?
many free programs pay off for the developers because they charge for support. without proper support software is often not worth considering for many organisations, so that's a convenient way to raise funds for further development. Even more i don't think that making certain changes for money is a bad idea (as long as it doesn't compromise other parts of the program or makes it incompatible to prior versions), for all of the users will profit from it, the buyer gets what he wants and the developers get money they need to further develop the program.
well, MSBlast propably hit you because you didn't think about patching your windows. but what Symantec DID was provide a free tool to remove the worm/virus. if they didn't it would have xost you more time than just one hour i bet
... they tell honestly that they want people to actually pay for the program? Norton AntiVirus is worth every buck you pay for it, and the online update features are very comfortable. I can't imagine of "bogus" copy's that don't work, and even if they existed, why counteract with a registration. if the bogus copy doesn't work, they don't have to fear it. Furthermore Symantec does a great deal in helping us for FREE (do you remember the W32.Blaster removal tool you could download even when you weren't a costumer of them?), so i think if you want to use AntiVirus from Norton you should pay for it, if you are greedy there are a lot of free alternatives
In my opinion most IT programmers have the problem that the marketing department makes promises on products and if they eventually are sold then the IT staff has to sort things out, possible or (nearly) impossible. Most times marketing is more powerful than IT (at least here in austria), because they control most of the company's money, and saying "We can't implement this feature" after THEY already advertised it makes you look either like a "non - team player" or just a lazy bastard. Saying no is not sooooo easy sometimes if you want to stay in your job. I prefer "sublte downgrading", meaning i implement something that feels like the requested function but is downgraded and less powerful. they almost never realize it :)
It would be more reasonable to ask the IT Staff what they actually can do in advance instead of telling them they must do it... this could save a lot of time and coffee
Wired News has a similar article. Maybe you could just combine the new AI with the cute exterior ofClippy. On the other hand side it would be interesting how much space you have to allocate for the AI database. as far as i remember A.L.I.C.E. needed a quite large AIML file to be just somewhat intelligent. If now the computer should also remeber patterns in behavior and not just talk to you (Alice is a pure chatbot) then in my opinion you need quite large amounts of data to be stored. This could be useful for larger companies with a dedicated AI Server to help their employees (if we talk about AI in a network, why not call ist SKYNET), but on a normal desktop? I think that's too much.
./ today, normally syou surf it for ours during work. Can I help you get there?"
And to focus on another problem: if this thing learns about you behavior, don't you mind about your privacy? We are all paranoid about cookies and other spyware, and then some people actually want us to deliberatly install it? Just imagine: Your boss next to you because you want to show something to him and then the computer asks: "Hi XY, you haven't visited
...when i read technical documents at my company i also start to laugh, but unfortunately its the "manic laugh of utter despair". In my company development and documentation are handled by two different departments, so just take a guess how the documents look like if they are written by somebody who doesn't know a glimpse anything related to IT. Hopefully other /.'ers have better experience. To cut a long story short: if the wants all the "funny" dokumentation produced at the company I work, he should just get a laaaaaarge RAID...
oh, i just forgot: the parent message and this one are of course copyrighted, just in case i can make money out of it
... if i post here including my copyright, and somebody answers cutting out some of my text in his reply, can i sue him for obscene amounts of money (of course at a court in the state of NY).
does anybody know?
but maybe, in all the vacation you mentioned, he is able to guess the correct 2.6 kernel release date.
... in all the vacation you mentioned, he is able to guess the correct 2.6 kernel release date.
with earth it will surely be "MS Asteroid XP" - XPerience the Impact....
an improoved, lighter version of the Land Warrior Program
Hi!
The company I work for is quite a large telecom provider in austria and we are already running IPv6 paralell to the v4. The implementation of the new protocol was done about a year ago (plus/minus two month). within our network (behind the firewall) the server communicate via v6 but as far as i know they can also talk v4 for fallback reasons.
Hi!
It is quite interesting to see how the NASA and the ESA are competiting in the exploration of the Red Planet. Everytime the one space agency launches a probe, the other struggles to do the same. I personally think that all the Space Agencies worldwide should combine their knowledge and also their funds to do research on Mars.
In the world of globalisation we live in today it makes hardly any any sense to play single player when its possible to do it multiplayer...
bye
Johannes
ever since i installed it....
Since IE is already slow on Windows, the native system it comes from, it was to be expected that it will be even slower on a mac, since as far as i know there is only a compability layer to make the IE work with the mac instead of a truly MAC - Designed IE. to summarize - just patchwork to make it run...
cheers,
jl
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In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
this seems to be a good invention for meetings. while PDA's are ususally by far too small for taking notes and Laptops are too big, this thing cries to be used to take notes and then- when everything is done - send it to the other participants by mail via WLAN. I at least will recommend the Aquapad to my company (at least to test it and to get one in my hand). Another cool feature is that you can choose your OS, another plus compared to the average PDA. (Although in my opinion Win 2000 doesn't make sense on this piece of hardware). I just wonder how long the batteries last before they need recharging....