7.5hrs on a single battery, the standard one that it comes packaged with.
It edges out slightly the T41p due to difference in graphics chip apparently.
I have one and I can attest that it is no lie. I ran it at full-speed (OS/2, not Windows, Windows chews more) and battery was about half empty at over 3 hours of usage.
With battery mode turned on (Intel Speedstep), I did get well over 7 hours from this baby. Screen was not even at dimmest setting.
You're not getting paid 40% less. That's a myth. That 40% less nearly all of it comes from the exchange rate, which doesn't really matter (until you retire). That 40% _does_ matter to a US company making US profits though!
If you get paid $45k USD in US, you get paid $45k CDN in Canada for similar positions. Dollar for dollar, almost everything is similar cost. $1 (USD) for bread in US is $1 (CDN) for bread in Canada.
You'll get exactly the same standard of living, if not better. The only thing cheaper here (USA) relatively speaking is cars. I know, I'm one of the few who went the _other_ way, Canada to US. (Oh, I would stay in Canada if there were jobs!)
I actually enjoy a slightly _lower_ standard of living by moving to US than when I was living in Canada when you count up all the "hidden" costs like healthcare (not so much for me), utilities, Television, etc.
e.g. Up North, I paid $50/month for both digital TV and 10Mb/s Ethernet _combined_. Down here, it is $40/month for the Ethernet alone, and for digital TV another $50/month.
That's complete bull-shit that OpenSource (that's what I think you're referring to when you say "free") is easier to use than Microsoft stuff, in general.
I'm a tech guy (hey, I've been on-line in one form or another for over 20 years), and I _choose_ not to use Linux/UNIX at home because it's such a bag of useability shit.
Make software easy to use for the _average person_, not the average computer programmer.
The problem (still) is, "nobody" in open-source world really gives a snot about useability. How is it that a small outfit in Cupertino, California can make arguably the most easy to use OS (a UNIX-ish one no less) and the GNOME/KDE guys aren't even close....?
I _still_ get comments like "Read the man pages!" or "If you don't like it, go code it up yourself".
Even for developers, gcc/gdb is back in the dark ages for useability compared with any of MS' development tools for Windows. (Quality arguments aside).
If you answered to the former, then you should be out in industry.
I've worked in industry for many years, I also have Master's in Engineering and Physics (I decided to bail out of PhD on the last one). Why?
Some myths debunked about PhD (I recommend you try one before saying that it's so great): 1) Do cutting edge research. Except for some basic science fields, this is bullshit. Most companies are way ahead. I work in the semiconductor industry. Most professors would kill to get access to corporate technology because they're so far behind it's not even funny. We can't because of NDA issues and they have to publish. 2) Solving problems? Haha, it is engineers at companies that provide REAL solutions to REAL world, immediate problems. PhD's are doing very, very basic research (almost by definition) which have no known immediate application. 3) Getting patents? More BULLSHIT! Most university labs don't have the money to push a patent through. Also, you should hopefully graduate by the time most patents get approved! 4) Work with colleagues around the world? More BS. I do that every day at work. Twice I was at graduate school, there was very rarely the opportunity to do so. 5) Travel to conferences? Yeah right! A grad student is lucky to get 1 conference a year (unless they churn out tons of papers), because THERE IS NO FUNDING to send them there. You're more likely to get to go to workshops as a scientist or engineer in industry.
It's absolute BS that we don't have enough scientists. The reason the salaries are low is because there are TOO MANY PhD's and nobody willing to hire any of them. For some fields, it's a bonus to have a PhD, for many others, it's a negative (I know some companies refuse to hire them).
Why? Here's the typical process: Undergrad, spends summers in research labs. Go to grad school, get PhD, get PostDoc , hope to get professorship. Most PhD's don't know how to manage large projects efficiently (and many experiements are large projects) nor do they know how to deal with "real" people in the "real" world, because all they've known is university life. I *KNOW* because I was there.
And you know, money matters. I could work as a PhD for $40k a year. Or, I could work for $80k a year and blow $40k on that 'scope I really need but that the university lab can't buy because they have no funding to do any fucking work... Stuff that takes 6 months in industry is a friggin' 2 year project in university.
I advise you considering a PhD, go get a taste of the real world and some real pay, then go back and see if you still like it.
BTW, this isn't just my opinion. During the big tech meltdown, most of my colleagues went back to school. They think the same and most are trying to bail out...
Because they still don't _get it_! GrokDoc is asking about the _applications_, and that's not the problem. Mozilla on Linux is the same as Mozilla on Windows. OpenOffice is the same on both platforms.
It's the system, stupid!
If I install an application on Windows (or Mac or OS/2), where does it show up? Usually on a nice folder on the desktop or on some sort of "system menu". In Linux? Usually the answer is "I don't know!". (Problem is, some will play nice, some don't). Even if I knew to get to the command line, where is it? It's usually not fixed my $PATH variable, so it doesn't point to it yet. So how do I find it?
In any other OS, it's obvious. Look in "Programs" or "Program Files". Bloody obvious. Linux? Err...is that/usr/local/bin? Or maybe/usr/bin? or/usr/local/apps? (I've seen it in all 3 and more), not to mention NONE OF THESE PATHS MAKE SENSE TO YOUR AVERAGE USER!!! Even if you explain it to them.
And last of all, don't tell the user to RTFM. Most of these FM's are derived from man pages, which are F*** all useless to your average user.
All the advanced user-friendly goodness and none of the fat... 1GB will easily contain ALL my OS and applications and data (sans MP3). The machine rarely swaps with 128MB, 64MB is quite happy already.
No really. Is it a coincidence that one of the only banks in Canada to switch from IBM OS/2 to Windows is the one that was hit? TD Waterhouse is still on OS/2. As is Scotiabank, Bank of Montreal, and I believe CIBC.
Also, a while back, their ATM's were the only ones affected by the worms. You guessed it, also switched to NT-based ATM machines.
No, but what he really means is that hardware is now so good, and so cheap, it's no longer a useful differentiator.
Does it really matter if I run a Duron, or Opteron or Pentium-M with a board from FIC, Asus, or whoever? For most people (i.e. that doesn't mean you), they don't give a damn.
Take a look at Sony laptops. They give you proprietary multimedia software with them. SO? Who cares? Most people (i.e. again, not you), don't give a damn. It works, and only Sony has it, and they don't care that they're "locked in" to it.
With reference to cell phones, yes, you get a free phone, but you're locked into a contract. Does that seem to bother most users? No, cause they're gonna use a cell phone long term _anyways_. Same thing will apply here.
Of course, there is one other "out" and the ultimate lock in.... Apple. While they hardware is comparable to ultra-cheap white-box i386 machines, people are paying based on the really cool software and the really nice hardware design. Guess what, those people are HAPPY to be "locked in". Get over it. Most of the public don't have any ethical problems with being locked in to some hardware as long as they get better service/software.
NTFS fragments _very_ fast on me, after a few months of use, it is in the 20% or more range.
Same user (i.e. me), so same usage pattern, on my HPFS disks (yes, HPFS, that would be OS/2, not OS X), the fragmentation after 3 _years_ is less than 2% on ALL of my HPFS disks.
Uuuh...dude, most scientist and engineers are using metric. Go have a look at the US NIST labs. It's the rest of the American public that doesn't get it.
Not quite. You make the same (approx.) numerical amount in Canada and States. And the cost of stuff is roughly the same (numerically), except maybe cars. So you'll have the same lifestyle.
The exchange rate really only matters if you are saving a lot for retirement and take it back across the border.
The corporate culture is basically the same, it's the industry you're in that's screwing you. (I've worked in Canada, and now I'm in the Valley).
That report from the library of congress pertains to PRESSED audio CD's. I don't know about you, but nobody else in my neighbourhood has a CD pressing unit. We all used burned CD's, which ARE NOT THE SAME THING!
Spatial browser ... been DONE already!
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Folks, it wouldn't hurt to learn a bit of history. Don't re-invent the wheel.
IBM's OS/2 WorkPlace Shell (WPS) has been using the spatial browser method for many, many years.
Open up a folder anywhere, one window for one folder. It retains it's size and position from the last time you closed it, and yes, even scroll bar position and view (different views are possible).
SHIFT+double-click to close the parent while opening up the child, and just right-click to bring up the menu to open the parent.
Sound familiar? The features go on and on...and by the way, here's one thing that Nautilus doesn't have yet. The concept of a "Workspace".
Designate a folder as a Workspace in OS/2 WPS, and next time you open it, a complete environment will be restored. All open applications, all documents, any web browser links, etc. Close the folder, and everything closes up shop automatically.
It's a great idea, except it's already been done. IBM's Webexplorer (circa 1995 and earlier) had already implemented the same functionality (minus the web page screenshots).
It was called "Web Map"... It looks _exactly_ the same.
It still is a very powerful language. I even used it to write a simulation of nuclear spin diffusion in a sparse cubic lattice. Take that!!!
Is Perl ultimately more powerful? Maybe, but because Rexx can do 90% of what Perl can do, and because it's so damn easy to USE and it produces READABLE code, it is 150% more effective than Perl for me.
Aaah, there were the days when Rexx was the scripting language for Lotus Smartsuite..!
- Openness is desirable, but guess what, Symbian is essentially "open" to the phone developers. Linux has no advantage there. - Low cost. Yes, developers want low cost, but here's where the Zelos guys miss the boat. Low cost means the TOTAL, OVERALL cost, including missing market opportunities from slower time-to-market. Ask LG and others why they licensed bits of their software from Nokia.
What costs you is the time to develop the product, NOT per device licensing costs. This is NOT a personal computer market where the OS license cost can make up a large percentage of the cost.
Symbian works, it's good enough, it's from a consortium of the mobile phone makers, so it's relatively open and has easy licensing costs. Add to that the base of existing developers, it's hard to see how Linux will crack the market unless some extra whizz-bang functionality is added on the phones that Symbian can't support.
Plus, almost no user cares what OS their phone runs.
I had a chat with one of the prod. development managers from Nokia. He doesn't like the Windows-based products for mobile phones, but it _isn't_ for the reasons the Linux zealots expect. It isn't cost, and he didn't even mention "closed-source".
I agree. The manuals are freely available on-line from IBM and it not only lists all the part numbers (down to the screws I think), also complete procedures on how to completely dismantle and re-assemble your Thinkpad if necessary.
The FRU's aren't mysterious at all, just a unique ID for each part.
Not that I've had to use it. My old Thinkpad (nearly 4 years old now) is built like a tank. It's been beatup so much, but nothing broken yet! New battery and AC adapter ordered, they came within 3 days perfectly.
(Not like the crappy Dell my boss just ordered. Broken bezel from day 1, took 3 tries for them to ship him the right part.)
Based on my experience, I'm a big time IBM Thinkpad fan.
No, it's not about users getting smarter or anything. It is like most Windows 95/98 users have come to expect, and put up with, crappy operating systems that crash and mess up all the time.
People will go through 12-25 clicks or more, because they have surfed so many bad sites that they "expect" to have to do that to get at the information that they need.
Imagine that the user visits a "bad" site that needed 20 clicks to get to the information. Then he/she visits a "good" site which gets them there in 3-clicks. I absolutely cannot believe that the user won't notice the difference and won't go away feeling a bit annoyed at the 20-click web site! Just think about how YOU would feel!
Your fan can be always on, as can be your hard drive. The point being, it's a constant, steady noise source, which makes a perfect candidate for active noise cancellation.
Anyone tried it yet? Just record a sequence from your computer, then play it back and keep adjusting the phase until everything's quiet.
What is the point wasting time and effort to try and circumvent anti-SPAM techniques?
Anybody with the initiative and brains to bother installing SPAM filters is NOT going to fall for the SPAM, filter or not. So if you're a SPAM'er, why the hell are you trying to get around their filters????
The people who are going to get sucked into that SPAM crap are the ones who don't bother to install even the most basic SPAM filters at all.
This is like the national Do-Not-Call list. The smart telemarketers won't call those on the list, legal or not, because you're wasting your time. Those are the people where you have almost zero chance of success.
Maybe you should've used OS/2. IBM's still selling (just not the boxed copy, that was the press release 4 months ago) OS/2, and is still supplying patches.
We just got new patches for HD and media drivers last week.
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7.5hrs on a single battery, the standard one that it comes packaged with.
It edges out slightly the T41p due to difference in graphics chip apparently.
I have one and I can attest that it is no lie. I ran it at full-speed (OS/2, not Windows, Windows chews more) and battery was about half empty at over 3 hours of usage.
With battery mode turned on (Intel Speedstep), I did get well over 7 hours from this baby. Screen was not even at dimmest setting.
You're not getting paid 40% less. That's a myth.
That 40% less nearly all of it comes from the exchange rate, which doesn't really matter (until you retire). That 40% _does_ matter to a US company making US profits though!
If you get paid $45k USD in US, you get paid $45k CDN in Canada for similar positions.
Dollar for dollar, almost everything is similar cost.
$1 (USD) for bread in US is $1 (CDN) for bread in Canada.
You'll get exactly the same standard of living, if not better. The only thing cheaper here (USA) relatively speaking is cars.
I know, I'm one of the few who went the _other_ way, Canada to US. (Oh, I would stay in Canada if there were jobs!)
I actually enjoy a slightly _lower_ standard of living by moving to US than when I was living in Canada when you count up all the "hidden" costs like healthcare (not so much for me), utilities, Television, etc.
e.g. Up North, I paid $50/month for both digital TV and 10Mb/s Ethernet _combined_. Down here, it is $40/month for the Ethernet alone, and for digital TV another $50/month.
That's complete bull-shit that OpenSource (that's what I think you're referring to when you say "free") is easier to use than Microsoft stuff, in general.
I'm a tech guy (hey, I've been on-line in one form or another for over 20 years), and I _choose_ not to use Linux/UNIX at home because it's such a bag of useability shit.
Make software easy to use for the _average person_, not the average computer programmer.
The problem (still) is, "nobody" in open-source world really gives a snot about useability.
How is it that a small outfit in Cupertino, California can make arguably the most easy to use OS (a UNIX-ish one no less) and the GNOME/KDE guys aren't even close....?
I _still_ get comments like "Read the man pages!" or "If you don't like it, go code it up yourself".
Even for developers, gcc/gdb is back in the dark ages for useability compared with any of MS' development tools for Windows. (Quality arguments aside).
If you answered to the former, then you should be out in industry.
I've worked in industry for many years, I also have Master's in Engineering and Physics (I decided to bail out of PhD on the last one). Why?
Some myths debunked about PhD (I recommend you try one before saying that it's so great):
1) Do cutting edge research. Except for some basic science fields, this is bullshit. Most companies are way ahead. I work in the semiconductor industry. Most professors would kill to get access to corporate technology because they're so far behind it's not even funny. We can't because of NDA issues and they have to publish.
2) Solving problems? Haha, it is engineers at companies that provide REAL solutions to REAL world, immediate problems. PhD's are doing very, very basic research (almost by definition) which have no known immediate application.
3) Getting patents? More BULLSHIT! Most university labs don't have the money to push a patent through. Also, you should hopefully graduate by the time most patents get approved!
4) Work with colleagues around the world? More BS. I do that every day at work. Twice I was at graduate school, there was very rarely the opportunity to do so.
5) Travel to conferences? Yeah right! A grad student is lucky to get 1 conference a year (unless they churn out tons of papers), because THERE IS NO FUNDING to send them there. You're more likely to get to go to workshops as a scientist or engineer in industry.
It's absolute BS that we don't have enough scientists. The reason the salaries are low is because there are TOO MANY PhD's and nobody willing to hire any of them. For some fields, it's a bonus to have a PhD, for many others, it's a negative (I know some companies refuse to hire them).
Why? Here's the typical process:
Undergrad, spends summers in research labs. Go to grad school, get PhD, get PostDoc , hope to get professorship. Most PhD's don't know how to manage large projects efficiently (and many experiements are large projects) nor do they know how to deal with "real" people in the "real" world, because all they've known is university life. I *KNOW* because I was there.
And you know, money matters. I could work as a PhD for $40k a year. Or, I could work for $80k a year and blow $40k on that 'scope I really need but that the university lab can't buy because they have no funding to do any fucking work...
Stuff that takes 6 months in industry is a friggin' 2 year project in university.
I advise you considering a PhD, go get a taste of the real world and some real pay, then go back and see if you still like it.
BTW, this isn't just my opinion. During the big tech meltdown, most of my colleagues went back to school. They think the same and most are trying to bail out...
You mean you didn't get summer internships when you were at college?? It's a bit late to go back and do that now.
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Volunteer. Are you doing the job for money or experience? Lots of places (esp. non profit) wouldn't mind having a helping hand.
Somebody said networking. Screw networking. It doesn't matter who you know if you've got jack-shit experience.
Internship, co-op, summer job
Because they still don't _get it_!
/usr/local/bin? Or maybe /usr/bin? or /usr/local/apps? (I've seen it in all 3 and more), not to mention NONE OF THESE PATHS MAKE SENSE TO YOUR AVERAGE USER!!! Even if you explain it to them.
GrokDoc is asking about the _applications_, and that's not the problem. Mozilla on Linux is the same as Mozilla on Windows. OpenOffice is the same on both platforms.
It's the system, stupid!
If I install an application on Windows (or Mac or OS/2), where does it show up? Usually on a nice folder on the desktop or on some sort of "system menu". In Linux? Usually the answer is "I don't know!". (Problem is, some will play nice, some don't). Even if I knew to get to the command line, where is it? It's usually not fixed my $PATH variable, so it doesn't point to it yet. So how do I find it?
In any other OS, it's obvious. Look in "Programs" or "Program Files". Bloody obvious. Linux? Err...is that
And last of all, don't tell the user to RTFM. Most of these FM's are derived from man pages, which are F*** all useless to your average user.
...I use OS/2
All the advanced user-friendly goodness and none of the fat...
1GB will easily contain ALL my OS and applications and data (sans MP3).
The machine rarely swaps with 128MB, 64MB is quite happy already.
No really. Is it a coincidence that one of the only banks in Canada to switch from IBM OS/2 to Windows is the one that was hit?
TD Waterhouse is still on OS/2. As is Scotiabank, Bank of Montreal, and I believe CIBC.
Also, a while back, their ATM's were the only ones affected by the worms. You guessed it, also switched to NT-based ATM machines.
No, but what he really means is that hardware is now so good, and so cheap, it's no longer a useful differentiator.
.... Apple. While they hardware is comparable to ultra-cheap white-box i386 machines, people are paying based on the really cool software and the really nice hardware design.
Does it really matter if I run a Duron, or Opteron or Pentium-M with a board from FIC, Asus, or whoever? For most people (i.e. that doesn't mean you), they don't give a damn.
Take a look at Sony laptops. They give you proprietary multimedia software with them. SO? Who cares? Most people (i.e. again, not you), don't give a damn. It works, and only Sony has it, and they don't care that they're "locked in" to it.
With reference to cell phones, yes, you get a free phone, but you're locked into a contract. Does that seem to bother most users? No, cause they're gonna use a cell phone long term _anyways_. Same thing will apply here.
Of course, there is one other "out" and the ultimate lock in
Guess what, those people are HAPPY to be "locked in".
Get over it. Most of the public don't have any ethical problems with being locked in to some hardware as long as they get better service/software.
No, it doesn't take much to outdo NTFS.
NTFS fragments _very_ fast on me, after a few months of use, it is in the 20% or more range.
Same user (i.e. me), so same usage pattern, on my HPFS disks (yes, HPFS, that would be OS/2, not OS X), the fragmentation after 3 _years_ is less than 2% on ALL of my HPFS disks.
Uuuh...dude, most scientist and engineers are using metric. Go have a look at the US NIST labs.
It's the rest of the American public that doesn't get it.
Not quite. You make the same (approx.) numerical amount in Canada and States. And the cost of stuff is roughly the same (numerically), except maybe cars. So you'll have the same lifestyle.
The exchange rate really only matters if you are saving a lot for retirement and take it back across the border.
The corporate culture is basically the same, it's the industry you're in that's screwing you.
(I've worked in Canada, and now I'm in the Valley).
That report from the library of congress pertains to PRESSED audio CD's.
I don't know about you, but nobody else in my neighbourhood has a CD pressing unit. We all used burned CD's, which ARE NOT THE SAME THING!
Folks, it wouldn't hurt to learn a bit of history. Don't re-invent the wheel.
IBM's OS/2 WorkPlace Shell (WPS) has been using the spatial browser method for many, many years.
Open up a folder anywhere, one window for one folder. It retains it's size and position from the last time you closed it, and yes, even scroll bar position and view (different views are possible).
SHIFT+double-click to close the parent while opening up the child, and just right-click to bring up the menu to open the parent.
Sound familiar?
The features go on and on...and by the way, here's one thing that Nautilus doesn't have yet. The concept of a "Workspace".
Designate a folder as a Workspace in OS/2 WPS, and next time you open it, a complete environment will be restored. All open applications, all documents, any web browser links, etc. Close the folder, and everything closes up shop automatically.
It's a great idea, except it's already been done.
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IBM's Webexplorer (circa 1995 and earlier) had already implemented the same functionality (minus the web page screenshots).
It was called "Web Map"
It looks _exactly_ the same.
Not just "at the time"!
It still is a very powerful language. I even used it to write a simulation of nuclear spin diffusion in a sparse cubic lattice. Take that!!!
Is Perl ultimately more powerful? Maybe, but because Rexx can do 90% of what Perl can do, and because it's so damn easy to USE and it produces READABLE code, it is 150% more effective than Perl for me.
Aaah, there were the days when Rexx was the scripting language for Lotus Smartsuite..!
Those guys at Zelos don't know the market then.
- Openness is desirable, but guess what, Symbian is essentially "open" to the phone developers. Linux has no advantage there.
- Low cost. Yes, developers want low cost, but here's where the Zelos guys miss the boat. Low cost means the TOTAL, OVERALL cost, including missing market opportunities from slower time-to-market.
Ask LG and others why they licensed bits of their software from Nokia.
What costs you is the time to develop the product, NOT per device licensing costs. This is NOT a personal computer market where the OS license cost can make up a large percentage of the cost.
Symbian works, it's good enough, it's from a consortium of the mobile phone makers, so it's relatively open and has easy licensing costs. Add to that the base of existing developers, it's hard to see how Linux will crack the market unless some extra whizz-bang functionality is added on the phones that Symbian can't support.
Plus, almost no user cares what OS their phone runs.
I had a chat with one of the prod. development managers from Nokia. He doesn't like the Windows-based products for mobile phones, but it _isn't_ for the reasons the Linux zealots expect. It isn't cost, and he didn't even mention "closed-source".
I agree. The manuals are freely available on-line from IBM and it not only lists all the part numbers (down to the screws I think), also complete procedures on how to completely dismantle and re-assemble your Thinkpad if necessary.
The FRU's aren't mysterious at all, just a unique ID for each part.
Not that I've had to use it. My old Thinkpad (nearly 4 years old now) is built like a tank. It's been beatup so much, but nothing broken yet!
New battery and AC adapter ordered, they came within 3 days perfectly.
(Not like the crappy Dell my boss just ordered. Broken bezel from day 1, took 3 tries for them to ship him the right part.)
Based on my experience, I'm a big time IBM Thinkpad fan.
I live in downtown Vancouver.
$25/month gets me 10Mb/s Ethernet
That's right, not cable, not DSL, not PPPoE or some crap. Straight 10Mb/s both ways.
For $75/month, I can get my own dedicated IP address and 10Mb/s link to the 'net.
All prices in $CDN
No, it's not about users getting smarter or anything. It is like most Windows 95/98 users have come to expect, and put up with, crappy operating systems that crash and mess up all the time.
People will go through 12-25 clicks or more, because they have surfed so many bad sites that they "expect" to have to do that to get at the information that they need.
Imagine that the user visits a "bad" site that needed 20 clicks to get to the information. Then he/she visits a "good" site which gets them there in 3-clicks.
I absolutely cannot believe that the user won't notice the difference and won't go away feeling a bit annoyed at the 20-click web site!
Just think about how YOU would feel!
Hey, I saw a couple of episodes. I have to agree.
What's so special about Firefly?
Different characters and scenery, but same ol' story. Been there, done that. Even Andromeda is better than that.
I'll probably get modded down as a Troll by the authoritarian Slashdot regime, but what the heck.
Your fan can be always on, as can be your hard drive. The point being, it's a constant, steady noise source, which makes a perfect candidate for active noise cancellation.
Anyone tried it yet? Just record a sequence from your computer, then play it back and keep adjusting the phase until everything's quiet.
What is the point wasting time and effort to try and circumvent anti-SPAM techniques?
Anybody with the initiative and brains to bother installing SPAM filters is NOT going to fall for the SPAM, filter or not. So if you're a SPAM'er, why the hell are you trying to get around their filters????
The people who are going to get sucked into that SPAM crap are the ones who don't bother to install even the most basic SPAM filters at all.
This is like the national Do-Not-Call list. The smart telemarketers won't call those on the list, legal or not, because you're wasting your time. Those are the people where you have almost zero chance of success.
10Mb/s up and downstream, pure Ethernet.
For a mere $25CDN a month, that's like $18US/month.
And I don't even have to commit to 15months.
Yes, zipping along from sunny downtown Vancouver, Canada
Maybe you should've used OS/2.
IBM's still selling (just not the boxed copy, that was the press release 4 months ago) OS/2, and is still supplying patches.
We just got new patches for HD and media drivers last week.