It isn't that the recipient complains they aren't getting email, it's when the sender (my customer) complains to me that their mail isn't making it to the recipient and blames me when it's the spam filters at the other end causing the problem. And now this?
If you've been pestering their DNS servers for the last 15 months because you've been too lazy to remove those entries and can't be bothered to even remotely follow technical newssites, then your customers are placing the blame right where it belongs. Honestly, you're trusting the integrity of your email system to a third party and can't even be bothered to check up on them now and again? Like once a year or so? No, this is entirely your problem to own.
I was listening to "Alt Nation" when I heard the censored song.
I don't mind having "clean" channels for all the reasons you mentioned (and others, such as having something the kids can listen to in the car that's more tolerable than Cheetah Girls). I just want Sirius to label and/or market those channels as such.
Maybe this merger will improve the quality of their programming.
I'm praying that they don't improve it. Right now I get ClearChannel-free programming in the formats I like. If they fix that by replacing that content with whatever Clear Channel deems popular in a category, I'll cancel that same day.
Fortunately Sirius seems fairly responsive to customers. I wrote them a complaint letter when I heard them censor an F-bomb out of a song. It's not that I necessarily want a stream of profanity out of my radio, but that I'm an adult and paying extra to hear the whole song, and if I don't want to be offended then I can turn the channel. They replied with an apology and I've never heard it happen again.
The other day I realized that I don't really know why threads are supposed to be better than processes, other than because "multithreading" sounds cooler and it's not old and boring and well-understood like "multiprocessing". I'm asking this sincerely: why do people only talk about multithreaded processing whenever parallel programming comes up lately? It seems like IPC is marginally easy with threads but that design is much trickier, so what's the big win? Is it a CPU optimization thing?
You have effectively 'authorized' them to use your WAPs.
Correct. I authorized it by not locking it. Since there is no way to tell which WAPs are authorized and which aren't (because there's not configurable string for comments in 802.11 handshaking), and because the whole Internet works on the principal of "if it's not locked then it's open", it's reasonable to assume that an open WAP is authorizing you to access it.
I guess reading comprehension isn't taught as well in schools today as I originally assumed.
Don't be hard on yourself! You're most of the way there.
He doesn't want to go after people who end up on someones wifi because XP autojoined an open WAP, but he does want to go after people who intentionally (theres that word again) leech off of wifi access points.
Correction: "he does want to go after people who intentionally conenct to wifi access points."
I have two open WAPs an hope that my neighbors use them if they need to. They're only leeching in the sense of not directly financially compensating me for their use, but since it costs me nothing to offer the connection, I don't mind in the slightest.
The real problem is that the PDA niche became unprofitable as prices dropped.
For me, as an end user, it was even simpler: they lost Graffiti. I don't remember the details, or even if they had the ability to keep Graffiti around. But when I bought an m130 with PalmOS 3 and Graffiti 2 [0], I knew I'd never buy another one. It was awful, just awful. Half the letters took twice as many strokes, and while it was maybe easier to pick up for a new user, it was horribly slow for more experienced owners.
Again, I don't remember if Palm could have done anything about it, but when a handwriting recognition interface loses it's handwriting recognition, the writing moves to the wall. It was effectively dead for me that day.
[0] Palm released Graffiti 2 on some PalmOS 3 models. Would-be experts always feel the need to argue with me about that. Don't. I still have the thing in my possession and state that as an evidenced fact.
So how long before we get to pay several hundred dollars for high-pressure, superconducting HDMI cables that take our HD viewing to the "next level".
Your average Joe with less brains than disposable cash will be buying them from Best Buy soon. Your average audiophile will laugh at Joe and his "synthetic, emotionless" sound and write articles on the merits of brine-soaked cotton conductors.
I'm pretty sure Perl can do these things too, though I don't know Lisp or Scheme well enough for an apples-to-apples comparison of the capabilities.
Umm, we kinda guessed that.
Get thee to Casting SPELs in Lisp and work through the fun example. It's only a glimpse of what Lisp can do, but will disavow you of any notions of Perl equivalence pretty quickly.
One of the joys of C is that it doesn't do this. You can normally tell from looking at a block of code what the compiler will spit out.
First, that's only true if the compiler has all optimizations turned off. Anything from -O on up will reduce that to a wild guess. Second, I'd consider that a weakness of the language. Sure, it's convenient sometimes to know exactly when memory is allocated and freed or what code gets executed when, but I'd much rather have abstracted multi-threading, lazy evaluation, and other non-obvious bits that make code shorter and faster.
C's pretty spiffy when you need that degree of control. When you want to write it quickly and correctly and run it faster than C could, there are better alternatives.
And before anyone jumps at me, I know there's the for keyword in Python. It just doesn't work the same - just try to iterate from 0 to 2 billion and see.
I would argue that a well placed fuck or damn is more important than a good vocabulary.
I am completely serious about this:
I think that weather or disaster warnings should incorporate profanity. In certain places, tornado warnings are pretty common. You hear one, stop to look outside and check the weather radar, and if it's more than 5 miles away you go back to what you were doing. This probably isn't what you should do, but it's definitely what most people actually do.
Imagine instead if the weather radio said "if you live in Springfield, get the fuck inside! We're not kidding! That shit is about to hit you!" You'd be more likely to stop and think "oh, wow, maybe I should pay attention." Maybe that too would eventually lose its novelty and everyone would go back to being complacent, but I don't think so. I think that on a primal level we're wired to notice when we hear profanity.
"We've established that my son wasn't involved, my son has no association with anyone you named, and therefore he's not a material part of the investigation. If you insist on knowing my son's friends, who we've also established are not part of this group, I'll have to ask to step out while I discuss the legality of your request with my lawyer."
You actually said... that? And not "hell no, ask my lawyer"?
I mean, I've always wanted to be able to give spontaneous, eloquent, and formal speeches but usually don't make it past "yeah, right!" Good for you if you can pull it off.
My dad was saying "at ease, disease! There's a fungus among us!" since I was a little kid, and he learned that in his childhood. That should be: nice use of a common phrase as an album name, Incubus.
The problem is that there is not yet any business case for anyone to be the first to migrate.
Neither is there a business case against it. It's going to have to be done and you're perfectly welcome to run a dual IPv4/v6 network for as long as you want. Start now and you can turn a nasty project into a gradual transition.
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If you've been pestering their DNS servers for the last 15 months because you've been too lazy to remove those entries and can't be bothered to even remotely follow technical newssites, then your customers are placing the blame right where it belongs. Honestly, you're trusting the integrity of your email system to a third party and can't even be bothered to check up on them now and again? Like once a year or so? No, this is entirely your problem to own.
Wildly appropriate signature link.
I was listening to "Alt Nation" when I heard the censored song.
I don't mind having "clean" channels for all the reasons you mentioned (and others, such as having something the kids can listen to in the car that's more tolerable than Cheetah Girls). I just want Sirius to label and/or market those channels as such.
I'm praying that they don't improve it. Right now I get ClearChannel-free programming in the formats I like. If they fix that by replacing that content with whatever Clear Channel deems popular in a category, I'll cancel that same day.
Fortunately Sirius seems fairly responsive to customers. I wrote them a complaint letter when I heard them censor an F-bomb out of a song. It's not that I necessarily want a stream of profanity out of my radio, but that I'm an adult and paying extra to hear the whole song, and if I don't want to be offended then I can turn the channel. They replied with an apology and I've never heard it happen again.
The other day I realized that I don't really know why threads are supposed to be better than processes, other than because "multithreading" sounds cooler and it's not old and boring and well-understood like "multiprocessing". I'm asking this sincerely: why do people only talk about multithreaded processing whenever parallel programming comes up lately? It seems like IPC is marginally easy with threads but that design is much trickier, so what's the big win? Is it a CPU optimization thing?
MAC is short for Media Access Control. The Apple computer is spelled "Mac".
Correct. I authorized it by not locking it. Since there is no way to tell which WAPs are authorized and which aren't (because there's not configurable string for comments in 802.11 handshaking), and because the whole Internet works on the principal of "if it's not locked then it's open", it's reasonable to assume that an open WAP is authorizing you to access it.
I guess reading comprehension isn't taught as well in schools today as I originally assumed.Don't be hard on yourself! You're most of the way there.
Correction: "he does want to go after people who intentionally conenct to wifi access points."
I have two open WAPs an hope that my neighbors use them if they need to. They're only leeching in the sense of not directly financially compensating me for their use, but since it costs me nothing to offer the connection, I don't mind in the slightest.
Most Vista PCs will already have network cards.
Never played Contra 4 DS, huh? That game goes best with a nice relaxing hit of crack.
I know computers. I done programmed that comet cursor from the aol onto mine.
For me, as an end user, it was even simpler: they lost Graffiti. I don't remember the details, or even if they had the ability to keep Graffiti around. But when I bought an m130 with PalmOS 3 and Graffiti 2 [0], I knew I'd never buy another one. It was awful, just awful. Half the letters took twice as many strokes, and while it was maybe easier to pick up for a new user, it was horribly slow for more experienced owners.
Again, I don't remember if Palm could have done anything about it, but when a handwriting recognition interface loses it's handwriting recognition, the writing moves to the wall. It was effectively dead for me that day.
[0] Palm released Graffiti 2 on some PalmOS 3 models. Would-be experts always feel the need to argue with me about that. Don't. I still have the thing in my possession and state that as an evidenced fact.
Your average Joe with less brains than disposable cash will be buying them from Best Buy soon. Your average audiophile will laugh at Joe and his "synthetic, emotionless" sound and write articles on the merits of brine-soaked cotton conductors.
Newbie.
(Gah, must learn to resist /. ID wars.)
Umm, we kinda guessed that.
Get thee to Casting SPELs in Lisp and work through the fun example. It's only a glimpse of what Lisp can do, but will disavow you of any notions of Perl equivalence pretty quickly.
First, that's only true if the compiler has all optimizations turned off. Anything from -O on up will reduce that to a wild guess. Second, I'd consider that a weakness of the language. Sure, it's convenient sometimes to know exactly when memory is allocated and freed or what code gets executed when, but I'd much rather have abstracted multi-threading, lazy evaluation, and other non-obvious bits that make code shorter and faster.
C's pretty spiffy when you need that degree of control. When you want to write it quickly and correctly and run it faster than C could, there are better alternatives.
I think you're looking for enumerate().
Ummm, what?
Was it supposed to do something interesting?
I am completely serious about this:
I think that weather or disaster warnings should incorporate profanity. In certain places, tornado warnings are pretty common. You hear one, stop to look outside and check the weather radar, and if it's more than 5 miles away you go back to what you were doing. This probably isn't what you should do, but it's definitely what most people actually do.
Imagine instead if the weather radio said "if you live in Springfield, get the fuck inside! We're not kidding! That shit is about to hit you!" You'd be more likely to stop and think "oh, wow, maybe I should pay attention." Maybe that too would eventually lose its novelty and everyone would go back to being complacent, but I don't think so. I think that on a primal level we're wired to notice when we hear profanity.
You actually said... that? And not "hell no, ask my lawyer"?
I mean, I've always wanted to be able to give spontaneous, eloquent, and formal speeches but usually don't make it past "yeah, right!" Good for you if you can pull it off.
My dad was saying "at ease, disease! There's a fungus among us!" since I was a little kid, and he learned that in his childhood. That should be: nice use of a common phrase as an album name, Incubus.
Actually, she's quite fun-gal.
Neither is there a business case against it. It's going to have to be done and you're perfectly welcome to run a dual IPv4/v6 network for as long as you want. Start now and you can turn a nasty project into a gradual transition.
They have an A record but no AAAA for it. Nice.