A Canadian company, Ballard makes fuel cells that work in buses and cars. I think they have some of these buses in Vancouver and maybe Chicago? I saw a story on TV about them where someone from the company put a glass up to the exhaust pipe and drank the water that came out.
Hopefully these things will be commercially available soon...I have no idea why they aren't already.
Yesterday spammer Bill Graham somehow thought I was interested in spamming people to promote my site and phoned me up trying to sell his spam service. I told him I wasn't interested, so then he started asking me for referrals.
He started giving me his sales pitch about how they have servers in countries all around the world with providers who they have deals with so they can send bulk email. And their service never goes down because if one server is cut off then the others take over. He went on about how they have a deal with some foreign government who doesn't mind bulk email and this government has "technology" to prevent anyone from tracing the source. He also said that they have links at the bottom of each email to unsubscribe, however if the user clicks on it then it pops up a window, and if the user tries to close it, then more windows pop up.
I really couldn't believe what I was hearing. This guy was talking about it as though it was a legitimate business or something. Like running a bussiness where you have to hide and give people a hard time is on the level. Do these guys really believe that what they're doing is appreciated? I told him I wasn't interested. So then he started asking me if I was interested in website hosting for adult sites or knew anyone who was. Sheesh!
I tried installing RedHat 7 for the first time a few weeks ago and found a few things that would no doubt give newbies a hard time. The first thing was that when installing as a server x windows did not boot up by default. I was at a loss for a while staring at a command line. It didn't take long to figure things out online.
The next challenge was figuring out what all the packages do. It looked like there was over 1000 different packages to install. Their names didn't really tell me what they did. I don't think a newbie would know what KDE or Gnome are for let alone the rest of them. They need descriptions or something. At least with Windows they tell you what each option is for when you do a custom install. The names of the packages may as well be in Greek since they don't really seem to describe what they do.
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books would go out of print, and bookstores would stop carrying them once demand dropped below a certain threshold
Books can also be read for free by checking them out of a library....a novel's entertainment value can be enjoyed for free...the publisher and author don't receive anymore money.
How much different is that than when someone downloads an old game, playes it for a while, then gets bored of it and deletes it off their drive?
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I get free stuff all the time from www.totallyfreestuff.com.
I think that's funny....considering they called me yesterday asking me to advertise on their site. Could I have saved them?
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A Canadian company, Ballard makes fuel cells that work in buses and cars. I think they have some of these buses in Vancouver and maybe Chicago? I saw a story on TV about them where someone from the company put a glass up to the exhaust pipe and drank the water that came out.
Hopefully these things will be commercially available soon...I have no idea why they aren't already.
Yesterday spammer Bill Graham somehow thought I was interested in spamming people to promote my site and phoned me up trying to sell his spam service. I told him I wasn't interested, so then he started asking me for referrals.
He started giving me his sales pitch about how they have servers in countries all around the world with providers who they have deals with so they can send bulk email. And their service never goes down because if one server is cut off then the others take over. He went on about how they have a deal with some foreign government who doesn't mind bulk email and this government has "technology" to prevent anyone from tracing the source. He also said that they have links at the bottom of each email to unsubscribe, however if the user clicks on it then it pops up a window, and if the user tries to close it, then more windows pop up.
I really couldn't believe what I was hearing. This guy was talking about it as though it was a legitimate business or something. Like running a bussiness where you have to hide and give people a hard time is on the level. Do these guys really believe that what they're doing is appreciated? I told him I wasn't interested. So then he started asking me if I was interested in website hosting for adult sites or knew anyone who was. Sheesh!
I tried installing RedHat 7 for the first time a few weeks ago and found a few things that would no doubt give newbies a hard time. The first thing was that when installing as a server x windows did not boot up by default. I was at a loss for a while staring at a command line. It didn't take long to figure things out online.
The next challenge was figuring out what all the packages do. It looked like there was over 1000 different packages to install. Their names didn't really tell me what they did. I don't think a newbie would know what KDE or Gnome are for let alone the rest of them. They need descriptions or something. At least with Windows they tell you what each option is for when you do a custom install. The names of the packages may as well be in Greek since they don't really seem to describe what they do.
books would go out of print, and bookstores would stop carrying them once demand dropped below a certain threshold Books can also be read for free by checking them out of a library....a novel's entertainment value can be enjoyed for free...the publisher and author don't receive anymore money. How much different is that than when someone downloads an old game, playes it for a while, then gets bored of it and deletes it off their drive?