When I'm at school, advertisers from many companies including Yahoo! see that I'm on a.edu domain, and send me ads for things like textbooks and music. Seeing that I'm 19, when I use Yahoo! chat rooms I'm constantly pitched ads for Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears web sites and merchandise. (Fortunately, they can be moved off-screen for want of Junkbuster.) Seeing that I'm from New York (and I've said so in my Yahoo! profile), I often see ads for local businesses or web sites.
Targeted advertising isn't all bad, as long as it's targeted correctly. I, for one, am NOT interested in boy-bands or crappy fucked textbook companies.
What's even weirder is the fact that Reuters (which originally wrote the article) put it in the "Politics" section. How is this political? Maybe they should put it in Washington, D.C., to make Dubya evolve.
Odigo Messenger does the same thing. The main problem: your surfing habits can be collected and used for "marketing purposes." This is spyware. Know what you're sending.
Another minor quibble: Odigo doesn't show up in the Taskbar, and the only way to manipulate it is to use the tray to bring its window to the front. The developers went to the Winamp School of UI Design: make small widgets that are unintuitive and have no obvious keyboard alternatives. Would it kill them to make a messenger client that isn't full of shiny things?
Oh, come on yourself. There's already an entire site for promoting and supporting Slash-like sites, so we don't need any more stories. PCR is about as interesting as most of the Science stories here, but it doesn't shock me that your particular submission was rejected.
And Canada? Ca-na-fucking-duh? Even though your election didn't have any big problems like ours did, the principal difference is that nobody cares about the outcome of Canadian elections, besides of course for Canadians. You could elect a silly moron who can't speak English to be your Prime Minister, and nobody would care. (Oh wait, you already did that. Silly me.)
OS/2 was NEVER cheaper than Windows. Reason: When you bought the full version of OS/2, $90 of your purchase bought a copy of Windows to run in it! You could also "upgrade" using the hellish "OS/2 for Windows" (shudder) which merely took existing Windows code and reused it to run in OS/2.
Of course, one might also argue that OS/2 was meant to compete with Windows NT, which it did at least in price comparisons. But that's a discussion for another day.
No, you see, people want to run fun games on Linux. You know, games that actually utilize the processor? I had fun playing the standard GNOME and KDE games the first time around, when they were sold as the Windows Entertainment Pack around 1992.
If you want 50,000 clones of Tetris and Solitaire, go with Linux. If you want new, fun games, you'll need Windows. Thank you.
Today in Newsday, New York's local cable provider (Optimum Online) ran a full-page ad in which it proclaimed that its cable modems would make AOL run faster. Imagine that -- using AOL as a selling point, catering to the uneducated masses who think that AOL _is_ the Internet. Of course, in the small print, they mention that AOL will still cost you at least $9.95 per month, and that Cablevision doesn't manage AOL. Of course, that combination of brilliant marketing will mean that there are now two points of failure for Joe Home User connecting to AOL, not to mention a lot of Cablevision billing reps flooded with calls from users wondering why their AOL now costs more than twice as much as it used to.
At The Wiz, you have to commit to two years of Optimum Online service AND spend $100 on other stuff to get the cable modem for free. This modem is supposedly "no strings attached," which means that you could potentially sell it for less than the Wiz is charging to someone in the New York area.
Of course, knowing Cablevision's mindset on cable ("no access for you!") they would probably shut this down in a heartbeat. It took a lot of coaxing to make them let me set up my cable modem with Linux last year, when they were only doing in-home installs.
Me, I'm waiting for 802.11 as well. The wireless network on campus uses it, and I'm too cheap to get a decent laptop to use with it. I have, however, seen an alternative solution: a Compaq iPaq handheld, a PC Card sleeve, and any WaveLAN/Orinoco PC Card. The total cost will run you around $850, and all the added hardware makes it very clunky to hold. I'm hoping for a somewhat smaller solution before I leave here in 2003.
Those phones you're talking about are actually called "PDQ," not "PQA." In Palm terms, a PQA is a Palm Query Application to be used with a wireless (Palm VII or III/V+CDPD) connected organizer.
For a better version of the Divx-type standard, see Netflix. They send you a DVD (a real DVD, compatible with any player or computer) and a pre-paid mailer to return it. You watch it for as long as you like, and return it when you're done. You get charged for the time you've borrowed it, which works out to roughly $20/month.
Of course, if you're going to rent a movie enough times, you might as well buy it anyway.
I remember Magic Cap, although I never got the chance to play with it all that much. The problems facing Magic Cap were similar to those that plagued the Newton, the oft-lauded but ill-fated PDA of those days. The Magic Cap devices were often expensive ($700 and up) and bulky (too large to fit in a shirt pocket, while too small to be a laptop killer).
My favorite aspect of Magic Cap was that there was even an AOL client for it. I'm not sure whether there were other applications for it; they may have chosen to forego third-party software for fear of compromising the "simplicity" of the device. That killed the TI Avigo, the first direct PalmPilot competitor. From the looks of it, the lack of expansion may also hurt the 3com Audrey.
They didn't have U's back then. They instead used the letter V. That explains why you often see buildings like "NEW YORK PVBLIC LIBRARY," etc. U was not added to keyboards until around 1983; before that time, the Y and I keys were merely 50% wider to make up for the absence of U. Of course, since this message was sent just by pressing all the keys on the top row of the keyboard, the V was not used that time.
Yes, they do. After all, you need separate phone numbers for home, work, business, cellular, your teenage daughter who's always talking on the phone, your second cellular phone, your pager, and so on. That, coupled with the braindead way they assign phone numbers to companies (in blocks of 10,000) spells big trouble.
Services like MyPlay already provide up to 3GB of space with a decent connection rate. They're supported by ad banners, but I wonder what they'll switch to once they realize that there's very little money to be made that way. In any event, it'll cost you a LOT more than about $3/month to find a service that will host your CD's and be able to play them with at least 128kbps speed. You'd be better off getting DSL service and streaming them from your own hard drive.
Congratulations. You took the exact same thing that spammers on AOL do with AOL chat rooms and l33t VB pr0ggi3z, and did it with Perl. I'm proud of you.
Maybe soon someone will figure out a way to gather e-mail addresses by spidering web pages. Could nebby101@hotmail.com fall into the hands of spammers? Could all e-mail addresses be gathered this way? Judging by some mail that I get, "100 MILLION EMAIL ADDRESSES FOR $49.95" is a good place to start checking.
Indeed, Graham emphasized in an interview that the attacks were "limited to the AIM system. No one on the AOL platform has had their security compromised."
How about, "It's their own network, so let them do whatever they want with it"? AIM's protocol was never fully open; the "Open your protocol back up" is just typical open-source drivel. They have an acessible protocol, TOC, which is implemented in their Java-applet clients and most open-source clients. Their binary protocol, OSCAR, is their own property. Some hacked implementations exist for other platforms, but they're not quite perfect.
AIM is not life-or-death. The only thing they put at risk here is their Good Name (cough). You don't like it? Start your own IM network, and make it "standards-compliant." I'll be too busy chatting with all of my AIM and ICQ buddies to care.
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When I'm at school, advertisers from many companies including Yahoo! see that I'm on a .edu domain, and send me ads for things like textbooks and music. Seeing that I'm 19, when I use Yahoo! chat rooms I'm constantly pitched ads for Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears web sites and merchandise. (Fortunately, they can be moved off-screen for want of Junkbuster.) Seeing that I'm from New York (and I've said so in my Yahoo! profile), I often see ads for local businesses or web sites.
Targeted advertising isn't all bad, as long as it's targeted correctly. I, for one, am NOT interested in boy-bands or crappy fucked textbook companies.
What's even weirder is the fact that Reuters (which originally wrote the article) put it in the "Politics" section. How is this political? Maybe they should put it in Washington, D.C., to make Dubya evolve.
Odigo Messenger does the same thing. The main problem: your surfing habits can be collected and used for "marketing purposes." This is spyware. Know what you're sending.
Another minor quibble: Odigo doesn't show up in the Taskbar, and the only way to manipulate it is to use the tray to bring its window to the front. The developers went to the Winamp School of UI Design: make small widgets that are unintuitive and have no obvious keyboard alternatives. Would it kill them to make a messenger client that isn't full of shiny things?
Oh, come on yourself. There's already an entire site for promoting and supporting Slash-like sites, so we don't need any more stories. PCR is about as interesting as most of the Science stories here, but it doesn't shock me that your particular submission was rejected.
And Canada? Ca-na-fucking-duh? Even though your election didn't have any big problems like ours did, the principal difference is that nobody cares about the outcome of Canadian elections, besides of course for Canadians. You could elect a silly moron who can't speak English to be your Prime Minister, and nobody would care. (Oh wait, you already did that. Silly me.)
Wrong. Buy a Playstation instead.
Does it run Linux?
OS/2 was NEVER cheaper than Windows. Reason: When you bought the full version of OS/2, $90 of your purchase bought a copy of Windows to run in it! You could also "upgrade" using the hellish "OS/2 for Windows" (shudder) which merely took existing Windows code and reused it to run in OS/2.
Of course, one might also argue that OS/2 was meant to compete with Windows NT, which it did at least in price comparisons. But that's a discussion for another day.
No, you see, people want to run fun games on Linux. You know, games that actually utilize the processor? I had fun playing the standard GNOME and KDE games the first time around, when they were sold as the Windows Entertainment Pack around 1992.
If you want 50,000 clones of Tetris and Solitaire, go with Linux. If you want new, fun games, you'll need Windows. Thank you.
Today in Newsday, New York's local cable provider (Optimum Online) ran a full-page ad in which it proclaimed that its cable modems would make AOL run faster. Imagine that -- using AOL as a selling point, catering to the uneducated masses who think that AOL _is_ the Internet. Of course, in the small print, they mention that AOL will still cost you at least $9.95 per month, and that Cablevision doesn't manage AOL. Of course, that combination of brilliant marketing will mean that there are now two points of failure for Joe Home User connecting to AOL, not to mention a lot of Cablevision billing reps flooded with calls from users wondering why their AOL now costs more than twice as much as it used to.
At The Wiz, you have to commit to two years of Optimum Online service AND spend $100 on other stuff to get the cable modem for free. This modem is supposedly "no strings attached," which means that you could potentially sell it for less than the Wiz is charging to someone in the New York area.
Of course, knowing Cablevision's mindset on cable ("no access for you!") they would probably shut this down in a heartbeat. It took a lot of coaxing to make them let me set up my cable modem with Linux last year, when they were only doing in-home installs.
Me, I'm waiting for 802.11 as well. The wireless network on campus uses it, and I'm too cheap to get a decent laptop to use with it. I have, however, seen an alternative solution: a Compaq iPaq handheld, a PC Card sleeve, and any WaveLAN/Orinoco PC Card. The total cost will run you around $850, and all the added hardware makes it very clunky to hold. I'm hoping for a somewhat smaller solution before I leave here in 2003.
It has a headset port, so you can talk without smashing your face against your Visor's precious screen.
Xircom is rolling out both 802.11 and Bluetooth Springboard modules next year.
Those phones you're talking about are actually called "PDQ," not "PQA." In Palm terms, a PQA is a Palm Query Application to be used with a wireless (Palm VII or III/V+CDPD) connected organizer.
For a better version of the Divx-type standard, see Netflix. They send you a DVD (a real DVD, compatible with any player or computer) and a pre-paid mailer to return it. You watch it for as long as you like, and return it when you're done. You get charged for the time you've borrowed it, which works out to roughly $20/month.
Of course, if you're going to rent a movie enough times, you might as well buy it anyway.
I remember Magic Cap, although I never got the chance to play with it all that much. The problems facing Magic Cap were similar to those that plagued the Newton, the oft-lauded but ill-fated PDA of those days. The Magic Cap devices were often expensive ($700 and up) and bulky (too large to fit in a shirt pocket, while too small to be a laptop killer).
My favorite aspect of Magic Cap was that there was even an AOL client for it. I'm not sure whether there were other applications for it; they may have chosen to forego third-party software for fear of compromising the "simplicity" of the device. That killed the TI Avigo, the first direct PalmPilot competitor. From the looks of it, the lack of expansion may also hurt the 3com Audrey.
Dear Gordonjcp,
You have not yet read the FAQ. Please do so before asking again.
Thank you.
They didn't have U's back then. They instead used the letter V. That explains why you often see buildings like "NEW YORK PVBLIC LIBRARY," etc. U was not added to keyboards until around 1983; before that time, the Y and I keys were merely 50% wider to make up for the absence of U. Of course, since this message was sent just by pressing all the keys on the top row of the keyboard, the V was not used that time.
Even the Palm OS platform has had CompactFlash expansion for years now. Check out the TRGPro.
Yes, they do. After all, you need separate phone numbers for home, work, business, cellular, your teenage daughter who's always talking on the phone, your second cellular phone, your pager, and so on. That, coupled with the braindead way they assign phone numbers to companies (in blocks of 10,000) spells big trouble.
Services like MyPlay already provide up to 3GB of space with a decent connection rate. They're supported by ad banners, but I wonder what they'll switch to once they realize that there's very little money to be made that way. In any event, it'll cost you a LOT more than about $3/month to find a service that will host your CD's and be able to play them with at least 128kbps speed. You'd be better off getting DSL service and streaming them from your own hard drive.
Well, I guess we know why you don't work for AOL then.
Congratulations. You took the exact same thing that spammers on AOL do with AOL chat rooms and l33t VB pr0ggi3z, and did it with Perl. I'm proud of you.
Maybe soon someone will figure out a way to gather e-mail addresses by spidering web pages. Could nebby101@hotmail.com fall into the hands of spammers? Could all e-mail addresses be gathered this way? Judging by some mail that I get, "100 MILLION EMAIL ADDRESSES FOR $49.95" is a good place to start checking.
No. Is it so hard to read the damn article first?
How about, "It's their own network, so let them do whatever they want with it"? AIM's protocol was never fully open; the "Open your protocol back up" is just typical open-source drivel. They have an acessible protocol, TOC, which is implemented in their Java-applet clients and most open-source clients. Their binary protocol, OSCAR, is their own property. Some hacked implementations exist for other platforms, but they're not quite perfect.
AIM is not life-or-death. The only thing they put at risk here is their Good Name (cough). You don't like it? Start your own IM network, and make it "standards-compliant." I'll be too busy chatting with all of my AIM and ICQ buddies to care.
I don't understand! They told me, "At AOL, your privacy and security are always respected." Mr. Graham has some explaining to do...