However, if you consider the fact that the costs were so low and won't prevent the spammers from continuing. This is like a mosquito bite to them. $0.03 is not a bad return. It requires them to sell $300 of goods to 1 in 10000 people they send the mail to to cover this.
The sad thing is that AOL (by no fault of their own - I hope) has profited in the transaction. And has just become part of the spam process. At the end of the day spam is a bit more expensive but still very cheap, AOL (and their lawyers)make more money than before and screw the poor end user who has to sift through his junk email.
I think the only way this could be good is if each and every end user could sue the spam company for the time they had wasted on filtering spam. Say $10 a message (reasonable amount -not? How much is 2 minutes of your time worth?)- *this* could end spam forever.
I wonder if anyone who received the email can sue on the back of this decision...
I think its a waste to spend plenty money on a name. A brand is what you make it. Microsoft, BMW, Rolls Royce, Nike and Nokia all conjure up images in your mind but if you actually look at the words they are rather meaningless.
As is Pentium. Which was rather meaningless when it first arrived and is now accepted as a meaningful word.
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longevity - Its a classic that will be talked about (and used?) for many years to come. social/tech impact - It has both. Who has never used one of these little yellow guys? And who has never used a digital one? elegance - It was created by the need to "scratch an itch". It was created using glue that was apparently impossible. I.S.H.T.o.T-quality - Blah - this is the ultimate example of it. An idea so obvious that anyone could have thought of it and yet...
And the main reason I choose this one is that it is also the easiest way to crack passwords (read postit stuck on monitor) so being the biggest defn. of "hack" possible.*grin*
Has this happened to anyone else? I'm running on win32 (blah) and as I open the browser it crashes. I've deleted the mozreg file and the Users50 directory. I've tried importing my old profile in and alternatively running the wizard and creating one on the command line. Nadda. The page draws itself up and then Dr Watson pops up.
At the ISP where I used to work we had a Microsoft Small Business Server. This project was pushed big time by MS. It is a complete MS project - the clients run MS stuff, the ISP runs Microsoft stuff.
And (typically) it didn't work.
With a lot of MS pressure, a lot of MS help and a lot of MCSEs trying to help it finally got off the ground.
The difference now is that it uses BIND and not MS's DNS.
This to me is as much a medal as "This Man" could ever earn.
No, the translation loses all the codes. The only way to get them is to use hebrew words in the original hebrew manuscript.
Btw, they tried this with other documents including all the works of Shakespear, the bible rearranged, the bible backwards, etc and they didn't get nearly the same results (I think they tried 1M documents and none worked)
This was published in a statistic journal (not sure which).
The commercialisation of Muppets is sad. Jim Henson was a genius - The Dark Crystal is one of my favourite movies & probably the best fantasy movie ever.
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You have a *very* interesting point. Well done.
However, if you consider the fact that the costs were so low and won't prevent the spammers from continuing. This is like a mosquito bite to them. $0.03 is not a bad return. It requires them to sell $300 of goods to 1 in 10000 people they send the mail to to cover this.
The sad thing is that AOL (by no fault of their own - I hope) has profited in the transaction. And has just become part of the spam process. At the end of the day spam is a bit more expensive but still very cheap, AOL (and their lawyers)make more money than before and screw the poor end user who has to sift through his junk email.
I think the only way this could be good is if each and every end user could sue the spam company for the time they had wasted on filtering spam. Say $10 a message (reasonable amount -not? How much is 2 minutes of your time worth?)- *this* could end spam forever.
I wonder if anyone who received the email can sue on the back of this decision...
Gives a new meaning to:
"I had a shit time on New Years Eve"
At least 1/12th of the population (me included) would like the name Taurus.
I think its a waste to spend plenty money on a name. A brand is what you make it. Microsoft, BMW, Rolls Royce, Nike and Nokia all conjure up images in your mind but if you actually look at the words they are rather meaningless.
As is Pentium. Which was rather meaningless when it first arrived and is now accepted as a meaningful word.
If you add a few of the following:
"first post!"
"this is so typical Katz"
"I hate Katz"
"Just who does Katz think he is?"
"I love Katz"
"This is *so* true"
"This is like Linux because..."
"Why is everything always about Linux?"
"You misspelled stuff"
etc
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This is my vote (post?) on the best hack ever:
longevity - Its a classic that will be talked about (and used?) for many years to come.
social/tech impact - It has both. Who has never used one of these little yellow guys? And who has never used a digital one?
elegance - It was created by the need to "scratch an itch". It was created using glue that was apparently impossible.
I.S.H.T.o.T-quality - Blah - this is the ultimate example of it. An idea so obvious that anyone could have thought of it and yet...
And the main reason I choose this one is that it is also the easiest way to crack passwords (read postit stuck on monitor) so being the biggest defn. of "hack" possible.*grin*
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These jobs would be filled by Europeans (not tiny green men, against popular belief)
I was thinking Bunny People actually.
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Has this happened to anyone else? I'm running on win32 (blah) and as I open the browser it crashes. I've deleted the mozreg file and the Users50 directory. I've tried importing my old profile in and alternatively running the wizard and creating one on the command line. Nadda.
The page draws itself up and then Dr Watson pops up.
viewer.exe runs perfectly.
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At the ISP where I used to work we had a Microsoft Small Business Server. This project was pushed big time by MS. It is a complete MS project - the clients run MS stuff, the ISP runs Microsoft stuff.
And (typically) it didn't work.
With a lot of MS pressure, a lot of MS help and a lot of MCSEs trying to help it finally got off the ground.
The difference now is that it uses BIND and not MS's DNS.
This to me is as much a medal as "This Man" could ever earn.
Good luck for the future.
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No, the translation loses all the codes. The only way to get them is to use hebrew words in the original hebrew manuscript.
Btw, they tried this with other documents including all the works of Shakespear, the bible rearranged, the bible backwards, etc and they didn't get nearly the same results (I think they tried 1M documents and none worked)
This was published in a statistic journal (not sure which).
Cheers,
Allen
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What happens when companies start to release GPL code for the kernel and it doesn't get included becuase its too weak on coding?
;)
Thats fine. We'll fix it up for them and release it back to them. Thats what GPL is all about, not?
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What sort of sound does this thing have? Does it use the TV speaker, stereo out, 4 point stereo (as in Surround sound)?
Especially with the DVD - does it does AC3 (dolby digital?)
The commercialisation of Muppets is sad.
Jim Henson was a genius - The Dark Crystal is one of my favourite movies & probably the best fantasy movie ever.