His solution: #1, spam the user. #2, notification spam. #4, multi level marketing.
I'm assuming your off by one on the multi-level marketing thing.
Well, as I see it, the other forms of "marketing" on the internet are: #4 text or graphical/flash ads, #5 deception or fraud (think mortgage brokers), and #6 annoyance ads (think popup/unders).
Now, lets look at what I tolerate on the internet.
#1, I have spamassassin trained to eliminate over 99.9% of the marketing #2, I have a http://www.spamgourmet.com/ account for every purchase online that "requires" an email address #3, I foe every single dipfuck here on slashdot that has multi-level marketing in their "homepage" or signatire #4, I don't use flash. I use http://culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet. php to eliminate banner ads and if it misses one at least the gif animation does not cycle forever #5, I know better #6, I haven't seen a popup/under since about 2001 because "popup blockers" are a requirement since then for a suitable browser for me
So, what escapes? Text ads. Yup. And I often click on them when I am searching for a product to help support Google for having such an excellent search engine, but I do not believe that I have ever bought something from an ad on the internet. Even the tasteful text ads on Google are 99% deception and/or fraud, or the companies have nothing over standard, known brick-n-mortar or established internet retailers.
The real problem here is ignorance of the general population. They tolerate and fall for so much of the 6 marketing methods, and actually perpetuate it. Everybody knows that spam would stop if people stopped buying V14gr4! and penis pills from spam, but people will and do reply to them, so it is profitable. The same goes for the others.
So, my only beef with the parent's del.icio.us comments, are that his recommendations are incomplete.
The website is hideous, but there used to be benchmarks against different polling/selecting methods. If I remember correctly, its kinda trial and error, YMMV, kind of stuff. Its worth a look.
Yes, I thought most of the stuff has been addressed for years too. But I'm confused about this, which is new to me:
BDP = link_bandwidth * RTT 100MBps * 0.050 sec / 8 = 0.625MB = 625KB Note: I divide by 8 to convert from bits to bytes communicated. So, set your TCP window to the BDP, or 1.25MB. Where does.625MB turn into 1.25MB? If it was double, it might make sense for a send and receive window, but I doubt that is the case either.
Is this a typo, or am I missing something in the calculation?
2,000 people is nothing. These are young people that have volunteered to do such a job, and are willing to die fo what they believe in be it right or wrong. I've talked with a Marine truck driver that was proud that his group of people were of the highest death rate due to reconicence of dead vehicles.
So, the military is not a very bad choice of a hazardous job. Especially compared to policemen, cab drivers, and watermen.
Now, being that the poor Iraqis that we "liberated" from the evils of Saddam, they are much worse off. Gas there has gone up something like 8 fold. Electricity and food are issues. For the first time in over 100 years their deathrate has exceeded their birthrate. Their children then have birth defects due to using fun toys like armor piercing rockets that have depleted uranium (aka, gulf war sickness here in the US). They have lost on order of 30,000 people directly by being killed http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
I don' think your anymore of an argumentative dick than I am, but you just have much fewer data.
Agreed. This was explicitly stated as the reason for switching. I also find it amusing that the previous Slashdot headline is titled "Intel Loses Market Share to AMD".
Since there is no topic, I'll go offtopic.
AMD has completely kicked Intel's but in price, performance, and power requirements. Opteron's with their HTX memory controllers and now using them for interconnects http://pathscale.com/infinipath.php is absolutely off the hook. Intel does have better mobile chips though.
For about $200k, you can throw together a very fast general purpose beowulf cluster. About 64 dual-core processors, and save thousands in power every year over anything Intel has to offer.
In 2007, Intel is going to add direct memory controllers to their x86 and Itanium processors, but what they need to do lower their prices. They already have the best manufacturing capabilities of any chip maker, so they need to give the CxOs a pay cut and lower their prices. Time will tell.
The future of war is now: advanced technological societies waging war with ever-more precise, ever-more-powerful weaponry, tolerating few if any casualties among their own forces, confronting archaic, pre-modern societies whose only effective counterforces are terror--a willingness both to kill and to die.
But you see, then this confirms the silliness of war.
If we go to a technological, battlebot, kind of thing and few if anybody dies, how is that different than business as usual?
What that would mean is that people go to work (many die at work already), invent war toys, and then play with them.
War is done for a few different reasons.
1) population control -- murder (war of one) is much more common in hunting and gathering societies vs ones with division of labor. It is done because someone pisses somebody off, but usually because they are slack, don't hunt very well, and then pisses somebody off. They take more than they give
2) economic reasons -- war is currently one of the primary ideological motivators for American economy. trump up propaganda how we are being attacked and get extra cash to protect us. Its a very old way of establishing power and keeping people motivated to work
3) property disputes -- if somebody wants real estate, go take it. the US has no worries here. We are protected by two oceans and 2 large peaceful countries and either way we would notice a few thousand people coming our way
So with the US, we are working on eliminating or have eliminated #1 and #3, so we need to push #2.
Yeah, and next thing you know, the president will put up a porn site at whitehouse.com and then switch it over to a mortgage scam.
Mr. Bush, I know you didn't do too good in school, but go to hxttp://al4a.com. That is the best start for a variety of porn. It is even has it categorized into the misleading url hxttp://al4a.com/movies.html where you can pick from 51 different categories in either pictures (if you net connection is already too clogged from CARNIVORE) or movies. You have the complete variety from teeny girls, gay sex. bi sex, fat girl sex (Clinton!!!), BSDM, tranny porn, midget porn, redheads, brunets, big titties, little titties, big cocks, the who 9 yards (the cocks are not that big though).
What is the big deal with porn? Its great. Watching professionals have sex is many times cheaper, better and safer than picking up the drunk girl left at the bar right after last call.
Porn stars are often very intelligent, humble, and adjusted people. Listen to them talk in an interview.
Actually, I would rather have Ron Jeremy in the Whitehouse over you.
Being that Americans don't hardly even get killed anymore when they wage their war every 10 years because of our superior technology, I see the next incarnation of war to be a big battlebot war or something.
I would say that even that is progress. Hell, even then maybe wars won't cost us so much. People pay to go to arenas like in the days of gladiators. (I'm not sure if they paid or it was free.) But still, picture a football sized arena, and the lights go down and its US vs N. Korea. Of course WMDs would not be allowed. You have to build the suspense and make the battle last.
I think overall mankind's productivity has increased thanks to the technology. I can't say if the IT world would be more convenient if 95% of us were using Linux.
I believe that CAD, CAM, robots, genetic engineering of crops, and assembly lines has much more to do with it. Well, I guess all of those things are technology. I love Linux. It has more creature features than "real" unix OSes. FreeBSD 4.9s 'ls' still does "ls -ke ls: illegal option -- e usage: ls [-ABCFGHLPRTWabcdfghiklnoqrstu1] [file...]"
Thanks for reciting the alphabet for me, it only took 4 tries to find an illegal flag.
As car thefts become a norm, we must lock our cars, when that's not enough, we need to put on the steering lock, alarm, then immobalizer, and now the security datadot. However, I think overall we do benefit from the introduction of vehicles.
Its much easier to drive a car nobody wants to steal an leave the key in the ignition. I did it for years.
If corporate security is anything like the government security that I'm familiar with, its all a joke.
Password rules and changes are a joke. I never even use funky characters or upper case. If I can't type my password with one hand, its too much. I have had probably thousands of brute force ssh attacks with many users that I have no password rules on, and never had a breakin. Breakins happen primarily from buffer overflows (I have not had one, yet).
I work at a government research facility and the security is a joke. They relaxed the RFID locks on the doors so that you do not have to scan out. I believe its more suspicious to not be able to get out of a building than in. Especially if they have bags and junk on them. People politely open the door for people. Windows boxes still get owned. All the same crap.
I thought about this today. People are scared and lock their doors at home (I don't) and their car doors, but they are too stupid to buy a gun to defend themselves, their family, and their property.
They practically walk naked down the street, but armor up in their car. A guy I work with just got a new car, and I said that I wanted to steal it, and he said I couldn't because of all of the alarms and whatever gizmos were installed. I said that I could clock him and be off in 20 seconds. He didn't want to try me on that.
If you look on the net, its almost scary what you can buy. Cell phone records, boat purchases, aircraft purchases, address lookups, real estate purchases, basically anything. When I saw the boats and aircraft, I thought about trying to pick their pockets for something. Any ideas?
I wouldn't have objected to your post but for its built-in disregard for the people who live on income at the subsistence level. That would also include seniors on fixed incomes.
OK. 9 or so years ago I was about $30k in debt, unemployed because I just got out of grad school with no MS to show for it, and a BS in a liberal arts field that I could do nothing with in the "real world". I lived in a trailer in the mountains of NC where a guy charged me $100/mo, and then let it slide after I couldn't pay anymore because he liked me and I was a quiet decent roommate. He was disabled. Legally blind, and worked in food service for a college. We were OK.
I have psychiatric problems, and could not afford medication and was almost insane and hungry and lonely. My gf at the time was not supportive, and after I got a job and bought her a house, she dumped me.
When she dumped me, I was homeless and also just got.bombed (jobless).
I currently work at far less than "market value" for a sysadmin. I'm looking at getting another job with a top computer firm, and am willing to make less than I am now because the company kicks ass.
I let people slide on debts all the time. I've had 7 people share my home over the past couple of years. I bought a friend $100 in groceries when she got fired from her job. I'm looking to buy a friend of mine that owes me $300 a car because he is having personal problems right now.
I realize I come across as cold, but unless you live in a completely communistic society like Native Americans or similar (even then there was not total equality, but close) there will always be a bottom, and those at the bottom are the least successful in society.
Keep in mind that I know people in NC that make $400/mo and are happy. Have plenty of food, and a place to live. They have zero money problems.
No, you can't write on a piece of paper and get bread. But everybody has some sort of value to society unless they are disabled to about braindead. How tough is it to borrow somebody's lawnmower and find 1 yard to cut. With that money, you could feed 1 person for at least 3 days.
I don't believe in money problems, again, because money is not real. Its uncommon for someone just to wake up and realize they have no money.
Poor is a state of mind, not a lack of money. Ghandi, Mother Theresa, nor Jesus were poor, but had little to no material wealth. Hey, and even one wasn't killed for telling people to be nice to each other.
Life for everybody is hard. I go through gut wrenching pain where I want to die just to get rid of it from time to time. I am not a son of a rich kid who has had everything handed to them. I've worked hard for everything I have achieved in life. And my achievements are not money or possessions, but freedom and the ability to help others. Sure I have an HDTV, but what does that give me? Honestly, it gives me companionship because people like to come over and watch it. I bought it for all of us to enjoy. I have very nice furniture that sits much more than my ass, and I bought it for others to come over and be friends. I bought $6k in electronics to help some local musicians out. (I can't play shit).
I have no regrets for anything I've done, nor for those that cannot achieve things. People that fail are those that cannot find something outside of their place to live that others appreciate. They suck, and like everybody else they get what they deserve. There are no victims, only volunteers.
I recently sold all my brick and mortar houses and condos and bought a trailer for my family. The day I bought my trailer is the first day I had ever even stepped in one. I have more square footage in my trailer (soon to be 3000 square feet if things go well) than I did in almost any previous house or condo (except 2) and all my utilities are significantly cheaper. Higher R-values give me a huge savings over owning a 50 year old house!
I'm selling my house and will net about $40k. Student loans will be 0. I'm planning to buy a car for a friend with the extra.
I'm not sure what part of the country I'm going to end up at, so I will probably live in a hotel for a while. I've done it before, about $750 or $800/mo all bills included and maid service and I can check out any time I want. No lease or deposit or anything. When I did it before, a few families lived there. I'm single, but its not bad. I wish it were a little cheaper.
Don't believe the hype -- I bet all these hype editors are looking to make huge gains in the stocks they're shorting:)
Why should anybody? Its gotten to the point that over 90% of the "news" is either lies, propaganda, or hype (lies mixed with propaganda). Same goes with those goofy government ads on how to live and raise your kids.
I greatly appreciate your comments here. IMHO, you're the brightest guy on/. (next to me of course:) No, I have finally almost unlearned all of the BS I was taught by the government and my parents. It has taken something like 5 years of work, but its worth it. I nolonger feel as if I am part of the cog, but free. I was manipulated into the whole "house" thing, and it will definitely work to my advantage, but seeing my interest go from 550/mo to almost 1k is a bit much. I'm back to renting my own house, and I don't know if prices will fall (does that happen?) or stagnate at an overinflated value (my house is WAYYY overvalued, about 30-40k). I almost feel guilty selling it for so much, but I'm going to do some renovations and make it worth their while.
I believe part of the supply/deman issue has to do with the demand for ENERGY.
Yes. Because that is what we are buying, energy, not oil per se. Electricity competes with oil, etc.
If gas heat were to skyrocket, I would switch my house heat to electric or oil or ferret power if I could.
I already have done this to some degree. My power and electricity bill combined was less than my parents gas bill, and I've been supplementing my gas heat with an electric radiator.
Spoken like somebody who has never faced a tough financial period with a family. If everybody had lives as privileged as yours, then yes, change might be useless. But if you've ever had to live on a small amount of money, being forced to buy two of something that you only need one of is not reasonable.
Family, no. Tough financial times, not really either. In the recent past, I've been unemployed for 6 months, but I had about $10k saved and was getting unemployment.
Since March of last year, I had to buy a new car $7k. $2.7k when I got into a fender bender, and $1k in medical expenses over top of my regular bills. And I lost 3 paying roommates over the period of time. I own my own home too.
I had to pay an extra $100 or so for short term interest, but I'm on track again now. I don't make much money either. I just got a raise and bring home about $3k a month.
So long as you can eat, have a place to stay, and have fun, why worry about money problems? Money is not even real anymore. Its not backed by hard currency, its just blips on a screen.
I'm assuming your male and you have assumed the role of provider for your family. That is pretty normal. Now, was it you or your wife that was more worried about the cash issue? I'm also assuming that she also had less to lend to the situation as well, but I bet she reminded and nagged you about it every day.
The change from six months of cash transactions regularly adds up to $300 in my change jar. That's 3% of a minimum wage salary in the US. If you've gotten rich enough to think change is useless, you make too much money.
I am basically cashless. I charge _everything_ and pay the bill at the end of the month. I am able to go back and look at my spending habits, and see what is going on. For me, its too easy to dump $20 into a gas tank and then forget about it (there is nothing to show for it, and the cost is almost random, AND I'm charged to the.1 cent level:) and wonder what happened to my $50 bill. Especially if I overshoot the $20 by a few cents, I now have less than $30 in my wallet.
Its all the same, and that is my point. If our spending habits are the same, I "save" $300 every 6 months without dinking with change. In fact, when I pay my CC bill, I round up to make it an even number. Oh, and $300 every 6 months means that you have over $1 in change a day, closer to $2. That is a bunch of extra crap in your pocket to scratch your iPod, cell phone, and stuff.
I would just soon do without counting $300 in change from time to time.
My father is a penny pinching banker that appears to be poor. He thought I was stupid because he gave me a big bag of change (gave it to me), and I took it to a change thing at the grocery store and paid 10 to 20% or whatever maybe %5, I really don't care. I was able to get $80 worth of food for $20, and I did not have to get change wrappers, sort and count the change, take it to a bank. Put my name all over it. Its does not sound like a good time.
Even though I do not play with change, I'm pretty frugal. I put between $600 and $1k on my CC every month. That is for food, beer, cigarettes, gas, cat supplies, house suppies, everything. That works out to $20 to $33/day. That is not bad. The CC data is updated almost realtime, so right now I can see the two packs of smokes (two for one baby!) I bought from across the street and my lunch that totals to about $8 dollars. $8.40 if you really want to know.
The thing is that this gives me more freedom. I never say, "I'm out of cash, I can't get that on the way home", or my friends that accost me to drive them all over town to the bank that does not charge them extra to get cash.
I'm on direct deposit. I'm a computer geek. Why not do everything electronically? If something goes funky with my CC, they take care of it for me.
A friend here has been investing in gold for some time, maybe he is on to something.
BTW, pennies are not copper anymore. From the US mint:
The alloy remained 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc until 1982, when the composition was changed to 97.5 percent zinc and 2.5 percent copper (copper-plated zinc).
Copper is very recyclable, and in demand. It pays anywhere between pennies to $1.50/pound or more to recycle it.
Now that electronics are disposable because of quick upgrades and poor reliability, they will be recycled more in the future. There is a bunch of copper and gold and other nice stuff in there.
Its a crime that the zinc industry lobbies congress with cash every time we try to get rid of the penny. Its useless. In fact all change is. What can you really buy for less than a buck? If its less than a buck, splurge and get two.
If I start my own restaurant, I will not take or receive change. Its heavy, and it would cost more of my employees time to count, sort, and organize the change than if they just threw it in the trash. Or maybe I could just throw it in the tip pool, and give it to them in cash later.
But washing your hands doesn't do much. Recreationally, I share cigarettes and pipes with people that use their mouths and hands on the stuff, and we seem to get what goes around like everybody else.
Last time this came up, someone suggested randomizing the top level threads in order to promote better discussions.
I'm a subscriber, and I think its dumb that I can get to the story early before you can even comment, write a thoughtful comment with links and thought.
But then my post gets slammed at the bottom of the list and few see it.
So, I just do what I just did with this thread a bunch of times. Find a random saying more at the top of the threads, copy and paste a quote, and then but in line.
I cannot predict my moderation or replies to my posts, but I think that some are pretty good that don't get enough eyeballs because of this behavior.
This is true even for obsessive-compulsive hand-washers who use lots of anti-bacterial products. They just have tougher bacteria on their hands.
Yup.
Its too bad that we can't get rid of this bacteria though.
I mean, at least 80% of the people I know have bacterial infections every week. Its only about 50% for those that lick toilets, and 90% for computer people that share dirty keyboards. Only 10% of the needle sharing junkies that I know have bacterial infections, but about 20% of them have the AIDS virus, and once they get sick they will then get bacterial infections.
This is a joke. Everybody get off of the permaclean trip.
We are stupid when it comes to basic hygiene. I mean, look at what you tell children.
Cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze.
Shake his hand.
Personally, I don't worry about it. I purposely do not wash my hands after flushing the toilet (I prefer my immune system to be fit, its like lifting weights). I did almost kick some guy's ass who I work with because he used to take a piss and then use the 1st or 2nd dirtiest part of his body to flush the toilet -- the bottom of his shoe.
He got lucky because he just stopped before I did anything about it. Actually, I haven't seen him in a while, maybe he died from a bacterial infection.
So you are part of the "majority wins, minorities eat it" crowd?
Majority always wins.
Such as the time I saw a blind man attempting to cross a street and got off course and just about killed when the light changed and instead of someone assisting the man, they just raced off the line taking the *cane* out of his hand when they clipped it.
What? I have never heard of such a thing. Where on Earth do you live? I'm guessing one of the top 10 populated cities in the US. I would suggest moving where people are more kind. Why would anybody want to be associated with assholes like that? Wow.
Or the many horn honking engine revving idiots when a wheelchair isn't getting out of the intersection in time... while pedestrians walk right by the struggling chair user.
Example #2 that you are living in the wrong place. The only people I am impatient with on the road are old people that drive slowly*, and dumbasses that can't figure out how to drive and talk on the phone at the same time.
Inside buildings it isn't much better, with people stampede out of elevator shafts and showing *none* of the concern for the blind potential passenger. I say potential because after they stampede out, a stampede goes in, leaving the blind man in the dust.
Example #3. Move
I get so infuriated with the way people treat others that it hurts. Yet... you suggest that the things that help the disabled be *self sufficient* (when clearly the people around them aren't interested in bearing the burden of even a second's courtesy) should not exist because "it inconveniences everyone".
Fight back with random acts of kindness. A friend owes me $300 from back rent over 6 months, and does not call or come by anymore. He sucks with money. I told him what I do, but he is used to fucking up. I'm coming into about $40k from a real estate sale (why someone would pay 1/2mil for my $160k house is beyond me), and I'm going to buy him a car because his got repoed. I found a 4 door car today with a list price of $6.9. I asked if I could get it for $6k, and the sales guy asked what I wanted to do about the taxes titles and other fees. I said, "nothing". My friend should be able to drive out of the place with a 2000 4 door import.
Yet... you suggest that the things that help the disabled be *self sufficient* (when clearly the people around them aren't interested in bearing the burden of even a second's courtesy) should not exist because "it inconveniences everyone".
Hate crimes are already on the books. Call the cops.
Nobody is self sufficient. I never suggested that the wheelchair bound person cut down a tree in his backyard and make himself a wheelchair. If the person is not going to help other people out by working and going out in the world, why does he need a wheelchair anyway?
I just found out last night that my worthless wheelchair bound cousin now is asking his sister for money to get his electricity turned back on. He does not deserve a wheelchair or electricity. He sucks. He does nothing for people, but takes from me and you with our social security, his overpriced almost $2.5k wheelchair that we gave him, and he refuses to do anything. Fuck him. What difference would it make if he just died?
"it inconveniences everyone"
So, what is your suggestion for the wheelchair bound people and blind people in your town?
I guess we could all get together and pay tons of money to install drop down gates at all of the intersections and elevator doors like that have at railroad crossings.
*old people suck. Eskimos ask them to take a nap on the snow when they eat more food than they are worth.
No wonder Sun has so many problems. They used to be the "dot in dot com" until IBM took over that in 2000 or so*.
The value of the web is priceless (and free!), how could a search engine to find stuff on it decrease that value?
This is the one of the most silly things I have read since Taco said the iPod was lame.
TFA says, "We've known since AltaVista's launch in 1995 that search is one of the Web's most important services."
Then, "There's no doubt that search engines provide a valuable service to users. The issue here is what search engines do to the companies they feed on -- the companies that fund the creation of original information. Search engines mainly build their business on other websites' content. The traditional analysis has been that search engines amply return the favor by directing traffic to these sites."
I use Google for everything. I never type in a blind url, because I make mistakes from time to time and get some typosquatter or other troll. What I do is go to the Google box next to the url box and type something like "barns an noble". Notice I mispelled the name, but even with my error, the first linke was "Barnes & Noble", which is what I was looking for. (DNS is already dead because of this, Google is the dot in dot eveything).
I would have no idea that the url would have been barnesandnoble.com. Many users don't know that a & is not a valid url character, and they would mistakently put it in the url if they were to blindly type it. Most web browsers would give a worthless error message like "The specified server could not be found." Thanks. I used to run a web proxy, I've seen everything in the world typed into the URL spot.
What Google and other search engines have done is flood the market with worthless, fly by night companies. Stable ones have no issues. Search for Apple computers, or Oracle database, you get useful links. Search for a commodity item you can get anywhere for the same price, and you get every sleezeball in the world trying to get your $25, when you could also just have walked to the store and got it for $30, and played with it that day.
Niche items are different. I can find them via Google. I have a nice whip cream dispenser that had the rubber grommet freeze because I was making so much whipped cream (right). I paid something like $40 for it. I wanted a new grommet for it, and I used Google to find a store in Pennsylvania that sold me the grommet for something like $2. I ordered 2 boxes of whipped cream to offset the shipping, and in less than a week I was back to making whipped cream!
I could have never, ever have found a $2 part without Google.
Google is a monopoly for a reason. Why would you need more than one place to find all of the questions you have?
* Sun boxes used to run the root DNS servers, and that is were they got the idea that they were the "dot in dot com". IBM took over that role in 2000 or so, I'm not sure if they still have it or not.
I don't have a machine that OS X will run on. I don't want to pay the 'full retail at the Apple Store' tax.
Man, get a job and pay $500 and get a mini and hook it up to one of your monitors. You will be pleasantly suprised.
Back when 'Personal Computers' started you had a prompt to stare at and it was up to you to make it do more, and doing so involved figuring out how it works.
Now most people turn on their computer, and see a 'Start' menu. If they figure out how to launch internet explorer and find google.com they can then search for 'Windows Start menu', and get googlebombed worthless information on what to do. You get things like http://www.winguides.com/registry/category.php/16/, and then usiful information like from the Windows Pop-up Start Menu, or even on the third link, cryptic stuff like:
By simulating the pressing of the "Windows" menu - or better yet, of the Ctrl-Escape key combination, which also works on older keyboards - you can programmatically bring up the Start menu. You can't use the SendKeys function to do so, though, and you have to resort to the keybd_event API function: Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" (ByVal bVk As Byte, _
ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long) Private Const KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = &H2
The definition of leader is broad, but being a rock star and in the lime light does not make you a leader...it makes you a rock star.
limelight n Definition: focus of attention
People pay attention to what is important to them, including people. Leaders have it first, and the rest either want it and give up, or they just follow.
If you have ever seen a good rock-n-rool band, go outside after the show and look at all the people following the band to the next show. People follow leaders.
I'm gonna sing you a hundred verses in ragtime I know this song it ain't never gonna end I'm gonna march you up and down the local county line Take you to the leader of the band
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His solution: #1, spam the user. #2, notification spam. #4, multi level marketing.
. php to eliminate banner ads and if it misses one at least the gif animation does not cycle forever
I'm assuming your off by one on the multi-level marketing thing.
Well, as I see it, the other forms of "marketing" on the internet are: #4 text or graphical/flash ads, #5 deception or fraud (think mortgage brokers), and #6 annoyance ads (think popup/unders).
Now, lets look at what I tolerate on the internet.
#1, I have spamassassin trained to eliminate over 99.9% of the marketing
#2, I have a http://www.spamgourmet.com/ account for every purchase online that "requires" an email address
#3, I foe every single dipfuck here on slashdot that has multi-level marketing in their "homepage" or signatire
#4, I don't use flash. I use http://culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet
#5, I know better
#6, I haven't seen a popup/under since about 2001 because "popup blockers" are a requirement since then for a suitable browser for me
So, what escapes? Text ads. Yup. And I often click on them when I am searching for a product to help support Google for having such an excellent search engine, but I do not believe that I have ever bought something from an ad on the internet. Even the tasteful text ads on Google are 99% deception and/or fraud, or the companies have nothing over standard, known brick-n-mortar or established internet retailers.
The real problem here is ignorance of the general population. They tolerate and fall for so much of the 6 marketing methods, and actually perpetuate it. Everybody knows that spam would stop if people stopped buying V14gr4! and penis pills from spam, but people will and do reply to them, so it is profitable. The same goes for the others.
So, my only beef with the parent's del.icio.us comments, are that his recommendations are incomplete.
Foe for life!
Try this:
o ve.html /dev/epoll
http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/nio-impr
The website is hideous, but there used to be benchmarks against different polling/selecting methods. If I remember correctly, its kinda trial and error, YMMV, kind of stuff. Its worth a look.
Yes, I thought most of the stuff has been addressed for years too. But I'm confused about this, which is new to me:
.625MB turn into 1.25MB? If it was double, it might make sense for a send and receive window, but I doubt that is the case either.
BDP = link_bandwidth * RTT
100MBps * 0.050 sec / 8 = 0.625MB = 625KB
Note: I divide by 8 to convert from bits to bytes communicated.
So, set your TCP window to the BDP, or 1.25MB. Where does
Is this a typo, or am I missing something in the calculation?
2,000 people is nothing. These are young people that have volunteered to do such a job, and are willing to die fo what they believe in be it right or wrong. I've talked with a Marine truck driver that was proud that his group of people were of the highest death rate due to reconicence of dead vehicles.
103,000 people die annually at work each year http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2
So, the military is not a very bad choice of a hazardous job. Especially compared to policemen, cab drivers, and watermen.
Now, being that the poor Iraqis that we "liberated" from the evils of Saddam, they are much worse off. Gas there has gone up something like 8 fold. Electricity and food are issues. For the first time in over 100 years their deathrate has exceeded their birthrate. Their children then have birth defects due to using fun toys like armor piercing rockets that have depleted uranium (aka, gulf war sickness here in the US). They have lost on order of 30,000 people directly by being killed http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
I don' think your anymore of an argumentative dick than I am, but you just have much fewer data.
why is this news?
Agreed. This was explicitly stated as the reason for switching. I also find it amusing that the previous Slashdot headline is titled "Intel Loses Market Share to AMD".
Since there is no topic, I'll go offtopic.
AMD has completely kicked Intel's but in price, performance, and power requirements. Opteron's with their HTX memory controllers and now using them for interconnects http://pathscale.com/infinipath.php is absolutely off the hook. Intel does have better mobile chips though.
For about $200k, you can throw together a very fast general purpose beowulf cluster. About 64 dual-core processors, and save thousands in power every year over anything Intel has to offer.
In 2007, Intel is going to add direct memory controllers to their x86 and Itanium processors, but what they need to do lower their prices. They already have the best manufacturing capabilities of any chip maker, so they need to give the CxOs a pay cut and lower their prices. Time will tell.
The future of war is now: advanced technological societies waging war with ever-more precise, ever-more-powerful weaponry, tolerating few if any casualties among their own forces, confronting archaic, pre-modern societies whose only effective counterforces are terror--a willingness both to kill and to die.
But you see, then this confirms the silliness of war.
If we go to a technological, battlebot, kind of thing and few if anybody dies, how is that different than business as usual?
What that would mean is that people go to work (many die at work already), invent war toys, and then play with them.
War is done for a few different reasons.
1) population control -- murder (war of one) is much more common in hunting and gathering societies vs ones with division of labor. It is done because someone pisses somebody off, but usually because they are slack, don't hunt very well, and then pisses somebody off. They take more than they give
2) economic reasons -- war is currently one of the primary ideological motivators for American economy. trump up propaganda how we are being attacked and get extra cash to protect us. Its a very old way of establishing power and keeping people motivated to work
3) property disputes -- if somebody wants real estate, go take it. the US has no worries here. We are protected by two oceans and 2 large peaceful countries and either way we would notice a few thousand people coming our way
So with the US, we are working on eliminating or have eliminated #1 and #3, so we need to push #2.
Everyone knows about what pops up with a search for "miserable failure".
Ever clicked the "similar pages" link right beside it?
But how can a law that puts no filter whatsoever in place be more effective than a software filter?
Free speech is next after they completely do away with due process. The Constitution is so old school.
Yeah, and next thing you know, the president will put up a porn site at whitehouse.com and then switch it over to a mortgage scam.
Mr. Bush, I know you didn't do too good in school, but go to hxttp://al4a.com. That is the best start for a variety of porn. It is even has it categorized into the misleading url hxttp://al4a.com/movies.html where you can pick from 51 different categories in either pictures (if you net connection is already too clogged from CARNIVORE) or movies. You have the complete variety from teeny girls, gay sex. bi sex, fat girl sex (Clinton!!!), BSDM, tranny porn, midget porn, redheads, brunets, big titties, little titties, big cocks, the who 9 yards (the cocks are not that big though).
What is the big deal with porn? Its great. Watching professionals have sex is many times cheaper, better and safer than picking up the drunk girl left at the bar right after last call.
Porn stars are often very intelligent, humble, and adjusted people. Listen to them talk in an interview.
Actually, I would rather have Ron Jeremy in the Whitehouse over you.
What else do you want to know?
(Since when did slashdot start autolinking http://whatever.com/thingies?).
Being that Americans don't hardly even get killed anymore when they wage their war every 10 years because of our superior technology, I see the next incarnation of war to be a big battlebot war or something.
I would say that even that is progress. Hell, even then maybe wars won't cost us so much. People pay to go to arenas like in the days of gladiators. (I'm not sure if they paid or it was free.) But still, picture a football sized arena, and the lights go down and its US vs N. Korea. Of course WMDs would not be allowed. You have to build the suspense and make the battle last.
Yes, this is definitely progress.
I think overall mankind's productivity has increased thanks to the technology. I can't say if the IT world would be more convenient if 95% of us were using Linux.
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I believe that CAD, CAM, robots, genetic engineering of crops, and assembly lines has much more to do with it. Well, I guess all of those things are technology. I love Linux. It has more creature features than "real" unix OSes. FreeBSD 4.9s 'ls' still does "ls -ke
ls: illegal option -- e
usage: ls [-ABCFGHLPRTWabcdfghiklnoqrstu1] [file
Thanks for reciting the alphabet for me, it only took 4 tries to find an illegal flag.
As car thefts become a norm, we must lock our cars, when that's not enough, we need to put on the steering lock, alarm, then immobalizer, and now the security datadot. However, I think overall we do benefit from the introduction of vehicles.
Its much easier to drive a car nobody wants to steal an leave the key in the ignition. I did it for years.
If corporate security is anything like the government security that I'm familiar with, its all a joke.
Password rules and changes are a joke. I never even use funky characters or upper case. If I can't type my password with one hand, its too much. I have had probably thousands of brute force ssh attacks with many users that I have no password rules on, and never had a breakin. Breakins happen primarily from buffer overflows (I have not had one, yet).
I work at a government research facility and the security is a joke. They relaxed the RFID locks on the doors so that you do not have to scan out. I believe its more suspicious to not be able to get out of a building than in. Especially if they have bags and junk on them. People politely open the door for people. Windows boxes still get owned. All the same crap.
I thought about this today. People are scared and lock their doors at home (I don't) and their car doors, but they are too stupid to buy a gun to defend themselves, their family, and their property.
They practically walk naked down the street, but armor up in their car. A guy I work with just got a new car, and I said that I wanted to steal it, and he said I couldn't because of all of the alarms and whatever gizmos were installed. I said that I could clock him and be off in 20 seconds. He didn't want to try me on that.
If you look on the net, its almost scary what you can buy. Cell phone records, boat purchases, aircraft purchases, address lookups, real estate purchases, basically anything. When I saw the boats and aircraft, I thought about trying to pick their pockets for something. Any ideas?
I wouldn't have objected to your post but for its built-in disregard for the people who live on income at the subsistence level. That would also include seniors on fixed incomes.
.bombed (jobless).
OK. 9 or so years ago I was about $30k in debt, unemployed because I just got out of grad school with no MS to show for it, and a BS in a liberal arts field that I could do nothing with in the "real world". I lived in a trailer in the mountains of NC where a guy charged me $100/mo, and then let it slide after I couldn't pay anymore because he liked me and I was a quiet decent roommate. He was disabled. Legally blind, and worked in food service for a college. We were OK.
I have psychiatric problems, and could not afford medication and was almost insane and hungry and lonely. My gf at the time was not supportive, and after I got a job and bought her a house, she dumped me.
When she dumped me, I was homeless and also just got
I currently work at far less than "market value" for a sysadmin. I'm looking at getting another job with a top computer firm, and am willing to make less than I am now because the company kicks ass.
I let people slide on debts all the time. I've had 7 people share my home over the past couple of years. I bought a friend $100 in groceries when she got fired from her job. I'm looking to buy a friend of mine that owes me $300 a car because he is having personal problems right now.
I realize I come across as cold, but unless you live in a completely communistic society like Native Americans or similar (even then there was not total equality, but close) there will always be a bottom, and those at the bottom are the least successful in society.
Keep in mind that I know people in NC that make $400/mo and are happy. Have plenty of food, and a place to live. They have zero money problems.
No, you can't write on a piece of paper and get bread. But everybody has some sort of value to society unless they are disabled to about braindead. How tough is it to borrow somebody's lawnmower and find 1 yard to cut. With that money, you could feed 1 person for at least 3 days.
I don't believe in money problems, again, because money is not real. Its uncommon for someone just to wake up and realize they have no money.
Poor is a state of mind, not a lack of money. Ghandi, Mother Theresa, nor Jesus were poor, but had little to no material wealth. Hey, and even one wasn't killed for telling people to be nice to each other.
Life for everybody is hard. I go through gut wrenching pain where I want to die just to get rid of it from time to time. I am not a son of a rich kid who has had everything handed to them. I've worked hard for everything I have achieved in life. And my achievements are not money or possessions, but freedom and the ability to help others. Sure I have an HDTV, but what does that give me? Honestly, it gives me companionship because people like to come over and watch it. I bought it for all of us to enjoy. I have very nice furniture that sits much more than my ass, and I bought it for others to come over and be friends. I bought $6k in electronics to help some local musicians out. (I can't play shit).
I have no regrets for anything I've done, nor for those that cannot achieve things. People that fail are those that cannot find something outside of their place to live that others appreciate. They suck, and like everybody else they get what they deserve. There are no victims, only volunteers.
I recently sold all my brick and mortar houses and condos and bought a trailer for my family. The day I bought my trailer is the first day I had ever even stepped in one. I have more square footage in my trailer (soon to be 3000 square feet if things go well) than I did in almost any previous house or condo (except 2) and all my utilities are significantly cheaper. Higher R-values give me a huge savings over owning a 50 year old house!
:)
/. (next to me of course:) No, I have finally almost unlearned all of the BS I was taught by the government and my parents. It has taken something like 5 years of work, but its worth it. I nolonger feel as if I am part of the cog, but free. I was manipulated into the whole "house" thing, and it will definitely work to my advantage, but seeing my interest go from 550/mo to almost 1k is a bit much. I'm back to renting my own house, and I don't know if prices will fall (does that happen?) or stagnate at an overinflated value (my house is WAYYY overvalued, about 30-40k). I almost feel guilty selling it for so much, but I'm going to do some renovations and make it worth their while.
I'm selling my house and will net about $40k. Student loans will be 0. I'm planning to buy a car for a friend with the extra.
I'm not sure what part of the country I'm going to end up at, so I will probably live in a hotel for a while. I've done it before, about $750 or $800/mo all bills included and maid service and I can check out any time I want. No lease or deposit or anything. When I did it before, a few families lived there. I'm single, but its not bad. I wish it were a little cheaper.
Don't believe the hype -- I bet all these hype editors are looking to make huge gains in the stocks they're shorting
Why should anybody? Its gotten to the point that over 90% of the "news" is either lies, propaganda, or hype (lies mixed with propaganda). Same goes with those goofy government ads on how to live and raise your kids.
I greatly appreciate your comments here. IMHO, you're the brightest guy on
I believe part of the supply/deman issue has to do with the demand for ENERGY.
Yes. Because that is what we are buying, energy, not oil per se. Electricity competes with oil, etc.
If gas heat were to skyrocket, I would switch my house heat to electric or oil or ferret power if I could.
I already have done this to some degree. My power and electricity bill combined was less than my parents gas bill, and I've been supplementing my gas heat with an electric radiator.
Spoken like somebody who has never faced a tough financial period with a family. If everybody had lives as privileged as yours, then yes, change might be useless. But if you've ever had to live on a small amount of money, being forced to buy two of something that you only need one of is not reasonable.
Family, no. Tough financial times, not really either. In the recent past, I've been unemployed for 6 months, but I had about $10k saved and was getting unemployment.
Since March of last year, I had to buy a new car $7k. $2.7k when I got into a fender bender, and $1k in medical expenses over top of my regular bills. And I lost 3 paying roommates over the period of time. I own my own home too.
I had to pay an extra $100 or so for short term interest, but I'm on track again now. I don't make much money either. I just got a raise and bring home about $3k a month.
So long as you can eat, have a place to stay, and have fun, why worry about money problems? Money is not even real anymore. Its not backed by hard currency, its just blips on a screen.
I'm assuming your male and you have assumed the role of provider for your family. That is pretty normal. Now, was it you or your wife that was more worried about the cash issue? I'm also assuming that she also had less to lend to the situation as well, but I bet she reminded and nagged you about it every day.
The change from six months of cash transactions regularly adds up to $300 in my change jar. That's 3% of a minimum wage salary in the US. If you've gotten rich enough to think change is useless, you make too much money.
.1 cent level :) and wonder what happened to my $50 bill. Especially if I overshoot the $20 by a few cents, I now have less than $30 in my wallet.
I am basically cashless. I charge _everything_ and pay the bill at the end of the month. I am able to go back and look at my spending habits, and see what is going on. For me, its too easy to dump $20 into a gas tank and then forget about it (there is nothing to show for it, and the cost is almost random, AND I'm charged to the
Its all the same, and that is my point. If our spending habits are the same, I "save" $300 every 6 months without dinking with change. In fact, when I pay my CC bill, I round up to make it an even number. Oh, and $300 every 6 months means that you have over $1 in change a day, closer to $2. That is a bunch of extra crap in your pocket to scratch your iPod, cell phone, and stuff.
I would just soon do without counting $300 in change from time to time.
My father is a penny pinching banker that appears to be poor. He thought I was stupid because he gave me a big bag of change (gave it to me), and I took it to a change thing at the grocery store and paid 10 to 20% or whatever maybe %5, I really don't care. I was able to get $80 worth of food for $20, and I did not have to get change wrappers, sort and count the change, take it to a bank. Put my name all over it. Its does not sound like a good time.
Even though I do not play with change, I'm pretty frugal. I put between $600 and $1k on my CC every month. That is for food, beer, cigarettes, gas, cat supplies, house suppies, everything. That works out to $20 to $33/day. That is not bad. The CC data is updated almost realtime, so right now I can see the two packs of smokes (two for one baby!) I bought from across the street and my lunch that totals to about $8 dollars. $8.40 if you really want to know.
The thing is that this gives me more freedom. I never say, "I'm out of cash, I can't get that on the way home", or my friends that accost me to drive them all over town to the bank that does not charge them extra to get cash.
I'm on direct deposit. I'm a computer geek. Why not do everything electronically? If something goes funky with my CC, they take care of it for me.
A friend here has been investing in gold for some time, maybe he is on to something.
BTW, pennies are not copper anymore. From the US mint:
The alloy remained 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc until 1982, when the composition was changed to 97.5 percent zinc and 2.5 percent copper (copper-plated zinc).
Copper is very recyclable, and in demand. It pays anywhere between pennies to $1.50/pound or more to recycle it.
Now that electronics are disposable because of quick upgrades and poor reliability, they will be recycled more in the future. There is a bunch of copper and gold and other nice stuff in there.
Its a crime that the zinc industry lobbies congress with cash every time we try to get rid of the penny. Its useless. In fact all change is. What can you really buy for less than a buck? If its less than a buck, splurge and get two.
If I start my own restaurant, I will not take or receive change. Its heavy, and it would cost more of my employees time to count, sort, and organize the change than if they just threw it in the trash. Or maybe I could just throw it in the tip pool, and give it to them in cash later.
By the way: Ewwwww! Wash your hands, you freak!
I made up most of the junk.
But washing your hands doesn't do much. Recreationally, I share cigarettes and pipes with people that use their mouths and hands on the stuff, and we seem to get what goes around like everybody else.
Its not that big of a deal.
Taco,
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Last time this came up, someone suggested randomizing the top level threads in order to promote better discussions.
I'm a subscriber, and I think its dumb that I can get to the story early before you can even comment, write a thoughtful comment with links and thought.
But then my post gets slammed at the bottom of the list and few see it.
So, I just do what I just did with this thread a bunch of times. Find a random saying more at the top of the threads, copy and paste a quote, and then but in line.
I cannot predict my moderation or replies to my posts, but I think that some are pretty good that don't get enough eyeballs because of this behavior.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1743
I believe that is one of them.
This is true even for obsessive-compulsive hand-washers who use lots of anti-bacterial products. They just have tougher bacteria on their hands.
Yup.
Its too bad that we can't get rid of this bacteria though.
I mean, at least 80% of the people I know have bacterial infections every week. Its only about 50% for those that lick toilets, and 90% for computer people that share dirty keyboards. Only 10% of the needle sharing junkies that I know have bacterial infections, but about 20% of them have the AIDS virus, and once they get sick they will then get bacterial infections.
This is a joke. Everybody get off of the permaclean trip.
We are stupid when it comes to basic hygiene. I mean, look at what you tell children.
Cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze.
Shake his hand.
Personally, I don't worry about it. I purposely do not wash my hands after flushing the toilet (I prefer my immune system to be fit, its like lifting weights). I did almost kick some guy's ass who I work with because he used to take a piss and then use the 1st or 2nd dirtiest part of his body to flush the toilet -- the bottom of his shoe.
He got lucky because he just stopped before I did anything about it. Actually, I haven't seen him in a while, maybe he died from a bacterial infection.
Simple.
When are you going to start doing your job?
I hate to be so blunt but WTF?
A simple Google search of windows internet explorer has as the first two links from Microsoft's website about the product. Seems to make sense.
The next two links are government warnings about the security of their products.
So, what are your plans for doing something about Microsoft products?
(I'm not affected, I don't use them, but many others do).
So you are part of the "majority wins, minorities eat it" crowd?
Majority always wins.
Such as the time I saw a blind man attempting to cross a street and got off course and just about killed when the light changed and instead of someone assisting the man, they just raced off the line taking the *cane* out of his hand when they clipped it.
What? I have never heard of such a thing. Where on Earth do you live? I'm guessing one of the top 10 populated cities in the US. I would suggest moving where people are more kind. Why would anybody want to be associated with assholes like that? Wow.
Or the many horn honking engine revving idiots when a wheelchair isn't getting out of the intersection in time... while pedestrians walk right by the struggling chair user.
Example #2 that you are living in the wrong place. The only people I am impatient with on the road are old people that drive slowly*, and dumbasses that can't figure out how to drive and talk on the phone at the same time.
Inside buildings it isn't much better, with people stampede out of elevator shafts and showing *none* of the concern for the blind potential passenger. I say potential because after they stampede out, a stampede goes in, leaving the blind man in the dust.
Example #3. Move
I get so infuriated with the way people treat others that it hurts. Yet... you suggest that the things that help the disabled be *self sufficient* (when clearly the people around them aren't interested in bearing the burden of even a second's courtesy) should not exist because "it inconveniences everyone".
Fight back with random acts of kindness. A friend owes me $300 from back rent over 6 months, and does not call or come by anymore. He sucks with money. I told him what I do, but he is used to fucking up. I'm coming into about $40k from a real estate sale (why someone would pay 1/2mil for my $160k house is beyond me), and I'm going to buy him a car because his got repoed. I found a 4 door car today with a list price of $6.9. I asked if I could get it for $6k, and the sales guy asked what I wanted to do about the taxes titles and other fees. I said, "nothing". My friend should be able to drive out of the place with a 2000 4 door import.
Yet... you suggest that the things that help the disabled be *self sufficient* (when clearly the people around them aren't interested in bearing the burden of even a second's courtesy) should not exist because "it inconveniences everyone".
Hate crimes are already on the books. Call the cops.
Nobody is self sufficient. I never suggested that the wheelchair bound person cut down a tree in his backyard and make himself a wheelchair. If the person is not going to help other people out by working and going out in the world, why does he need a wheelchair anyway?
I just found out last night that my worthless wheelchair bound cousin now is asking his sister for money to get his electricity turned back on. He does not deserve a wheelchair or electricity. He sucks. He does nothing for people, but takes from me and you with our social security, his overpriced almost $2.5k wheelchair that we gave him, and he refuses to do anything. Fuck him. What difference would it make if he just died?
"it inconveniences everyone"
So, what is your suggestion for the wheelchair bound people and blind people in your town?
I guess we could all get together and pay tons of money to install drop down gates at all of the intersections and elevator doors like that have at railroad crossings.
*old people suck. Eskimos ask them to take a nap on the snow when they eat more food than they are worth.
No wonder Sun has so many problems. They used to be the "dot in dot com"
until IBM took over that in 2000 or so*.
The value of the web is priceless (and free!), how could a search engine
to find stuff on it decrease that value?
This is the one of the most silly things I have read since Taco said the
iPod was lame.
TFA says, "We've known since AltaVista's launch in 1995 that search is
one of the Web's most important services."
Then, "There's no doubt that search engines provide a valuable
service to users. The issue here is what search engines do to
the companies they feed on -- the companies that fund the creation
of original information. Search engines mainly build their business on
other websites' content. The traditional analysis has been that search
engines amply return the favor by directing traffic to these sites."
I use Google for everything. I never type in a blind url, because I make
mistakes from time to time and get some typosquatter or other troll.
What I do is go to the Google box next to the url box and type something
like "barns an noble". Notice I mispelled the name, but even with my
error, the first linke was "Barnes & Noble", which is what I was
looking for. (DNS is already dead because of this, Google is the dot in
dot eveything).
I would have no idea that the url would have been barnesandnoble.com.
Many users don't know that a & is not a valid url character, and
they would mistakently put it in the url if they were to blindly type
it. Most web browsers would give a worthless error message like "The
specified server could not be found." Thanks. I used to run a web proxy,
I've seen everything in the world typed into the URL spot.
What Google and other search engines have done is flood the market with
worthless, fly by night companies. Stable ones have no issues. Search
for Apple computers, or Oracle database, you get useful links. Search
for a commodity item you can get anywhere for the same price, and you
get every sleezeball in the world trying to get your $25, when you could
also just have walked to the store and got it for $30, and played with
it that day.
Niche items are different. I can find them via Google. I have a nice
whip cream dispenser that had the rubber grommet freeze because I was
making so much whipped cream (right). I paid something like $40 for it.
I wanted a new grommet for it, and I used Google to find a store in
Pennsylvania that sold me the grommet for something like $2. I ordered 2
boxes of whipped cream to offset the shipping, and in less than a week I
was back to making whipped cream!
I could have never, ever have found a $2 part without Google.
Google is a monopoly for a reason. Why would you need more than one
place to find all of the questions you have?
* Sun boxes used to run the root DNS servers, and that is were they got
the idea that they were the "dot in dot com". IBM took over that role in
2000 or so, I'm not sure if they still have it or not.
I don't have a machine that OS X will run on. I don't want to pay the 'full retail at the Apple Store' tax.
/ , and then usiful information like from the Windows Pop-up Start Menu, or even on the third link, cryptic stuff like:
Man, get a job and pay $500 and get a mini and hook it up to one of your monitors. You will be pleasantly suprised.
Back when 'Personal Computers' started you had a prompt to stare at and it was up to you to make it do more, and doing so involved figuring out how it works.
Now most people turn on their computer, and see a 'Start' menu. If they figure out how to launch internet explorer and find google.com they can then search for 'Windows Start menu', and get googlebombed worthless information on what to do. You get things like http://www.winguides.com/registry/category.php/16
By simulating the pressing of the "Windows" menu - or better yet, of the Ctrl-Escape key combination, which also works on older keyboards - you can programmatically bring up the Start menu. You can't use the SendKeys function to do so, though, and you have to resort to the keybd_event API function:
Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" (ByVal bVk As Byte, _
ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)
Private Const KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = &H2
' Press the Ctrl-Esc key
keybd_event vbKeyControl, 0, 0, 0
keybd_event vbKeyEscape, 0, 0, 0
DoEvents
' Release the two keys
keybd_event vbKeyControl, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0
keybd_event vbKeyEscape, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0
DoEvents
So, we have all learned that Windows starts and ends about the same. Fun.
The definition of leader is broad, but being a rock star and in the lime light does not make you a leader...it makes you a rock star.
limelight n Definition: focus of attention
People pay attention to what is important to them, including people. Leaders have it first, and the rest either want it and give up, or they just follow.
If you have ever seen a good rock-n-rool band, go outside after the show and look at all the people following the band to the next show. People follow leaders.
I'm gonna sing you a hundred verses in ragtime
I know this song it ain't never gonna end
I'm gonna march you up and down the local county line
Take you to the leader of the band