I have no family, contacts, or business in China. I do not speak Mandarin or Cantonese or any other Chinese dialect. There are no domestic businesses, as far as I know, whose Web content is hosted in China.
It therefore does me no harm whatsoever to blacklist the entire country. Using blackholes.us as a foundation, I built procmail rules to accomplish this. Whenever the occasional spam message of Chinese origin reaches me, I make another change to the rules. As it is, my procmail.log shows fifteen to forty-five spam messages a day from China being routed to/dev/null.
I realize this isn't a suitable solution for everyone, but it's done a pretty fair job for me.
Rollover minutes are a fair, humane feature. The equipment both Cingular and AT&T offered has always had that certain geek factor not provided by most other providers (though T-Mobile looks pretty good in that respect).
The thing is, I've been at Verizon for over two years as a refugee from some truly horrible Cingular service. Specifically, I had terrible luck trying to find an optimal place to use my phone, a problem I haven't had at all with Verizon.
I'd love to get a Sony/Ericsson Bluetooth phone, something that Verizon just doesn't offer (their Motorola phones' Bluetooth implementation seems to be gimpy). But without decent reception, well, it wouldn't be much of a user experience. I'm going to be watching what develops here closely. If Cingular gets its act back together with regards to reception, sure, I'll go back.
The first rule of developer releases...
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...is that you do not talk about developer releases. Hence, the NDA. It's not nasty, as another poster observed. All it requires of you is to have one nice cup of Shut The Fuck Up after another until the final release.
That said...
Select membership gets you access to pre-release software, one incident of support from developer tech services, one hardware discount, and issues of the operating systems when they're finally released at no additional charge.
The way I look at it, $500 gets you the OS release that's bound to take place during your year's membership, and you can easily save far more than the difference when you buy a Macintosh system through the developer discount program. Being able to get assistance directly from Apple when you have a coding issue is a boon. The rest is icing on the cake.
...who once had to endure one snide remark after another about PowerBooks being fire hazards, I suppose it can now be said that all laptop computers are cremated equal.
"Warning: Unknown(/usr/www/users/salcan/index.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 Warning: (null)(): Failed opening '/usr/www/users/salcan/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0"
It's somehow fitting that a letter meant for an operating system should be barely human-perceivable.
...but I think it's only a matter of time before software catches up with the hardware.
After all, everyone remembers the infamous "640k should be enough for anyone" line with a chuckle, but at the time, it seeemd reasonable enough. Who knows what application is going to come along that will push today's hardware to the limit?
"It's best to keep a lossless copy of your songs..."
Thank you for hitting the nail squarely on the head.
By now, I've encoded my entire music collection twice, once in 128 kbps mp3, and by now in 128 kbps AAC. It would have been a giant step backward the second time around if all I had to work with were those mp3 files, instead of the CD originals.
This is why I still purchase CDs, except for those times when I purchase from iTunes Music Store those few songs I like from otherwise insipid albums. The photographs and liner notes are the icing on the cake.
"Brushing your teeth is a fight against tooth decay, not denture companies."
Yes, but if Microsoft made toothpaste, it'd be an analogue made of chalk, sawdust and water, and contain no fluoride. It'd be as effective against cavities as Windows is against exploits.
Home insulation is a fight against cold, not furnace companies.
But if Microsoft provided that insulation, you'd either be freezing your nads off, or your energy bills would skyrocket. You woudn't mind, though, because you know the ever-forthcoming upgrade will address that.
Quitting smoking is a fight against disease, not tobacco farmers.
Microsoft and the tobacco industry. A union too horrible to imagine.
Using a safe browser is a fight against assholes who write viruses, not IE.
Please never forget that it's IE that facilitated much of the mischief caused by those assholes.
"Criticising those who blindly love and follow Apple is not a 'troll.'"
That's the problem in a nutshell: Trolls seem to think it's a blind love that Macintosh enthusiasts have for their computer equipment. It isn't. Articles such as this one help to explain why we love the hardware. There certainly have been enough of them to explain why we love the software.
But trolls blithely ignore all of this, preferring to think of Apple enthusiasts as some sort of cult, "following" a leader. Perhaps it's some sort of diminished intellect that can wrap itself around no other concept than that.
If you dislike the Apple coverage on Slashdot so much, remember that's what filtering is for. Are you also sufficiently addled that you cannot use it?
"Why, for sanity's sake, can these companies never adopt a perfectly good standard, but do they always have to give everyone headaches by rolling their own?"
I dunno. Maybe they're trying to avoid each others' patents? Maybe they're too parsimonious to pay each other licensing fees? Or maybe they're simply trying to evolve the standards?
...who reads the name "Software Arts" and thinks of the innocence it implies?
There once was a time when software really was art. Now, it's a steely business. Back in 1979, Bill Gates was only some weenie whining because people were pirating paper tapes of his BASIC.
You've got to be kidding. If I, as an identity theft victim, had to do nothing more than community service, and ping! the vast financial mess some asshat created for me got cleaned up, I'd consider it a bargain, given the years of toil and aggravation it often takes to get things resolved.
A better solution? I've got one. Bury the bastards up to their necks in a fire ant mound. No further burdens to our prison system. And last I heard, no one's ever had to budget for fire ants.
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I have no family, contacts, or business in China. I do not speak Mandarin or Cantonese or any other Chinese dialect. There are no domestic businesses, as far as I know, whose Web content is hosted in China.
/dev/null.
It therefore does me no harm whatsoever to blacklist the entire country. Using blackholes.us as a foundation, I built procmail rules to accomplish this. Whenever the occasional spam message of Chinese origin reaches me, I make another change to the rules. As it is, my procmail.log shows fifteen to forty-five spam messages a day from China being routed to
I realize this isn't a suitable solution for everyone, but it's done a pretty fair job for me.
...is: Why don't they move to a USB interface? Or is there really that much money to be made selling adapters?
Rollover minutes are a fair, humane feature. The equipment both Cingular and AT&T offered has always had that certain geek factor not provided by most other providers (though T-Mobile looks pretty good in that respect).
The thing is, I've been at Verizon for over two years as a refugee from some truly horrible Cingular service. Specifically, I had terrible luck trying to find an optimal place to use my phone, a problem I haven't had at all with Verizon.
I'd love to get a Sony/Ericsson Bluetooth phone, something that Verizon just doesn't offer (their Motorola phones' Bluetooth implementation seems to be gimpy). But without decent reception, well, it wouldn't be much of a user experience. I'm going to be watching what develops here closely. If Cingular gets its act back together with regards to reception, sure, I'll go back.
...is that you do not talk about developer releases. Hence, the NDA. It's not nasty, as another poster observed. All it requires of you is to have one nice cup of Shut The Fuck Up after another until the final release.
That said...
Select membership gets you access to pre-release software, one incident of support from developer tech services, one hardware discount, and issues of the operating systems when they're finally released at no additional charge.
The way I look at it, $500 gets you the OS release that's bound to take place during your year's membership, and you can easily save far more than the difference when you buy a Macintosh system through the developer discount program. Being able to get assistance directly from Apple when you have a coding issue is a boon. The rest is icing on the cake.
"But what did he or his companies actually invent?"
Invariably, something greater than the sum of its parts.
"I didn't buy I mac because I wanted a Ford Torus..."
But for those times when you do want a torus, may I recommend these?
...who once had to endure one snide remark after another about PowerBooks being fire hazards, I suppose it can now be said that all laptop computers are cremated equal.
Do you normally take apart your laptop computer with your ass cheeks?
...with frickin' laser beams. That's the ticket.
"Warning: Unknown(/usr/www/users/salcan/index.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0
Warning: (null)(): Failed opening '/usr/www/users/salcan/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0"
It's somehow fitting that a letter meant for an operating system should be barely human-perceivable.
"...involving the Mambo content management system and businessman Brian Connolly."
It's my belief that any good thing will have, at the root of its ruin, a businessman. History will back me up on this.
Distributing bootlegs on Zip disks, well, in the eyes of the RIAA, that's gotta be tantamount to murder.
I somehow can't get that Christopher Walken cameo from Pulp Fiction out of my mind after reading this.
...but I think it's only a matter of time before software catches up with the hardware.
After all, everyone remembers the infamous "640k should be enough for anyone" line with a chuckle, but at the time, it seeemd reasonable enough. Who knows what application is going to come along that will push today's hardware to the limit?
Hurricanes are living proof that God hates spammers and wants us to be happy.
"...thick haired golf players..."
Um, I can't find those guys at iTunes Music Store. D'you think Napster has them yet?
"It's best to keep a lossless copy of your songs..."
Thank you for hitting the nail squarely on the head.
By now, I've encoded my entire music collection twice, once in 128 kbps mp3, and by now in 128 kbps AAC. It would have been a giant step backward the second time around if all I had to work with were those mp3 files, instead of the CD originals.
This is why I still purchase CDs, except for those times when I purchase from iTunes Music Store those few songs I like from otherwise insipid albums. The photographs and liner notes are the icing on the cake.
"Brushing your teeth is a fight against tooth decay, not denture companies."
Yes, but if Microsoft made toothpaste, it'd be an analogue made of chalk, sawdust and water, and contain no fluoride. It'd be as effective against cavities as Windows is against exploits.
Home insulation is a fight against cold, not furnace companies.
But if Microsoft provided that insulation, you'd either be freezing your nads off, or your energy bills would skyrocket. You woudn't mind, though, because you know the ever-forthcoming upgrade will address that.
Quitting smoking is a fight against disease, not tobacco farmers.
Microsoft and the tobacco industry. A union too horrible to imagine.
Using a safe browser is a fight against assholes who write viruses, not IE.
Please never forget that it's IE that facilitated much of the mischief caused by those assholes.
...they missed the target but hit the tree.
It's fitting they chose a member of the weasel family for a mascot. It would have been perfect if they'd chosen a skunk.
"Am I the only one who read the word "run" as "ruin" on first read?"
Probably not. There appears, after all, to be no shortage of the letter 'I' at Apple.
"Criticising those who blindly love and follow Apple is not a 'troll.'"
That's the problem in a nutshell: Trolls seem to think it's a blind love that Macintosh enthusiasts have for their computer equipment. It isn't. Articles such as this one help to explain why we love the hardware. There certainly have been enough of them to explain why we love the software.
But trolls blithely ignore all of this, preferring to think of Apple enthusiasts as some sort of cult, "following" a leader. Perhaps it's some sort of diminished intellect that can wrap itself around no other concept than that.
If you dislike the Apple coverage on Slashdot so much, remember that's what filtering is for. Are you also sufficiently addled that you cannot use it?
"Why, for sanity's sake, can these companies never adopt a perfectly good standard, but do they always have to give everyone headaches by rolling their own?"
I dunno. Maybe they're trying to avoid each others' patents? Maybe they're too parsimonious to pay each other licensing fees? Or maybe they're simply trying to evolve the standards?
...who reads the name "Software Arts" and thinks of the innocence it implies?
There once was a time when software really was art. Now, it's a steely business. Back in 1979, Bill Gates was only some weenie whining because people were pirating paper tapes of his BASIC.
I noted that the parent has been moderated as 'Funny.' Given the kind of justice that is often meted out in China, is it that far from the truth?
"Community service springs to mind."
You've got to be kidding. If I, as an identity theft victim, had to do nothing more than community service, and ping! the vast financial mess some asshat created for me got cleaned up, I'd consider it a bargain, given the years of toil and aggravation it often takes to get things resolved.
A better solution? I've got one. Bury the bastards up to their necks in a fire ant mound. No further burdens to our prison system. And last I heard, no one's ever had to budget for fire ants.